Welcome to NYC. Please Empty Your Pockets

Going to New York City is going to be just like going through a TSA checkpoint at the airport- please empty your pockets, only in NY you'll only get 40% of your stuff back:

Congressional plans to fund a massive health-care overhaul could have a job-killing effect on New York, creating a tax rate of nearly 60 percent for the state's top earners and possibly pressuring small-business owners to shed workers.

New York's top income bracket could reach as high as 57 percent -- rates not seen in three decades -- to pay for the massive health coverage proposed by House Democrats this week.

The top rate in New York City, home to many of the state's wealthiest people, would be 58.68 percent, the Washington-based Tax Foundation said in a report yesterday.

That means New York's top earners, small-business owners and most dynamic entrepreneurs will be facing new fees and penalties.

The $544 billion tax hike would violate one of President Obama's ironclad campaign promises: No family will pay higher tax rates than they would have paid in the 1990s.

You think New York City has fiscal troubles now? Just wait until Obamacare goes through and the wealthy earners flee for other states. States like Texas and Florida that currently don't have state income taxes could be the big winners. States like New York and California that insist on piling surcharges on the wealthy may soon find they don't have any wealthy to charge.