Low-tax states will gain seats, high-tax states will lose them

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Migration from high-tax states to states with lower taxes and less government spending will dramatically alter the composition of future Congresses, according to a study by Americans for Tax Reform

Eight states are projected to gain at least one congressional seat under reapportionment following the 2010 Census: Texas (four seats), Florida (two seats), Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington (one seat each). Their average top state personal income tax rate: 2.8 percent.

By contrast, New York and Ohio are likely to lose two seats each, while Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania will be down one apiece. The average top state personal income tax rate in these loser states: 6.05 percent.

The state and local tax burden is nearly a third lower in states with growing populations, ATR found. As a result, per capita government spending is also lower: $4,008 for states gaining congressional seats, $5,117 for states losing them.

And, as ATR notes, “in eight of ten losers, workers can be forced to join a union as a condition of employment. In 7 of the 8 gainers, workers are given a choice whether to join or contribute financially to a union.”

Imagine that: Americans are fleeing high tax, union-dominated states and settling in states with lower taxes, right-to-work laws and lower government spending. Nothing sends a message like voting with your feet.

Washington Examiner

Duh. This has been going on for a while now. The jobs are leaving and they are headed for low tax, right to work states. That's how I ended up down here.

 

[Paulie]

I didn't realize the Situation was posting here, what up Sitch!

 

[william the wie]

Voting with feet has permanent effects. The most important underreported datum of the run up to the Civil War is the rate of repudiations, defaults and temporary insolvencies of slave states vs. free states dating from the panic of 1837. The higher rate of insolvencies in left-liberal states are going to have permanent political effects.