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RockRam
All this to say that in the end, there is no such thing as a perfect fit available for him.
There are THREE......NOT 31......teams pursuing him (4 I guess if you include the Raiders, where for some reason the visit was canceled).
I really doubt that any of the three are going to break the bank for him.....the Rams least of all.
So, hard to know what he'll use as the parameters for deciding where he'd like to play.
And, let me tell you; California state taxes DO make a difference. It is a huge chunk. Cost of housing, forget it. It's all relative. For a rich guy it doesn't matter because it is simply an issue of having to pay a lot to acquire; but you'll make a lot when you sell. But State Taxes are simply flushing a S-load of money down the toilet with no way to recoup it. And when you're making the kind of money he makes, it amounts to hundreds of thousands.
I suspect Suh is smart enough to know this: Taxes are just another form of exchange. In the public realm, it's money exchanged for goods, services and shared assets (like R and D, libraries, museums, national parks, roads, bridges, courts, police, fire and rescue, 911, etc). Same idea as any private transaction, like money for an Iphone, except you get exponentially more for your money via the tax model. The private sector can't compete with the value, because of its far higher overhead, its need for profits, its desire for huge executive salaries, and because it doesn't produce shared assets. You're not sharing the burden of the cost with millions of our fellow Americans, past, present and future, either.
As in, it's the opposite of flushing it down the toilet, and players who move to Cali likely know this. Taxes for public goods, services and shared assets is a waaaay better deal than any private sector transaction. No person comes close to paying even a fraction of a fraction of what they get in those public goods, services and shared assets.
