by Dan Mitchell | Nov 30, 2023 | Blogs, States
I’ve written lots of columns comparing Texas and California (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here), and also several columns comparing Florida and New York (see here, here, here, here,...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 25, 2023 | Blogs, States, Taxation, Uncategorized
Over the past week, we’ve looked at both the Tax Hell Index and the International Tax Competitiveness Index, giving us a good idea of which nations have terrible and not-so-terrible tax policy. Today, let’s look at which states rank high and low on tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 19, 2023 | Blogs, Tax Competition, Taxation
As I did with the 2022 issue, the 2021 issue, the 2020 issue, etc, let’s analyze the results of the new International Tax Competitiveness Index from the Tax Foundation. In part, the results are boring because – once again...
by Dan Mitchell | Oct 5, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, States
In our series on red states vs blue states, we’ve examined different economic variables. Part I: Economic growthPart II: Unemployment ratesPart III: Employment growth Today, let’s add another comparison. Here’s a map looking at 2022 income growth by...
by Dan Mitchell | Aug 24, 2023 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
Two of the worst states for tax policy are California and New York. They have punitive income tax rates, high sales taxes, and myriad other ways of diverting money from the productive sector of the economy to finance bloated...
