by Dan Mitchell | Dec 27, 2023 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
Time for the final segment of my five-part series for 2023 on blue-to-red tax migration (previous versions here, here, here, and here). We’ll start with this table showing what has happened in America’s 10-largest states. You should notice a...
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 | Nov 18, 2023 | Blogs, Economics, Free Market, States
When I’ve written about Freedom in the 50 States (as I did in 2016, 2019, and 2022), it seems that Florida and New Hampshire routinely get the best scores. Well, the same is true for the latest edition. As you can see from this map, New...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 9, 2023 | Blogs, States, Tax Competition, Taxation
State-to-state migration is an underappreciated issue, for both economic and political reasons. And I’ve explained that taxes play a huge role. In Part I of this series, we looked at how people – and taxable income – are moving from high-tax...
by Dan Mitchell | Nov 8, 2023 | Big Government, Blogs, Government Spending
Since I care about policies rather than politicians, yesterday’s most important election was a referendum that took place in Colorado. The big-spending lobbies once again tried to weaken the state’s spending cap, known as TABOR, or the Taxpayer Bill of...
