Census confirms the price high-tax states pay Facing 'loss of some influence in Congress

By Andrew Wilford
Real Clear Markets

Certain high-tax states in this country just can’t seem to help themselves. Even as their tax bases flee their states, these states continue to stick to the same tax-and-spend policies that have some of their residents desperate to get out. Unfortunately for states starting to feel the pain through diminished revenue collections, it seems there’s another consequence as well: a loss of electoral and legislative power.

With the arrival of new census data comes Congressional reapportionment, and we now know that six states will gain seats in Congress while seven states will lose seats (Texas is gaining two seats). These changes are the same for Electoral College representation. But when looking at the states affected by these changes, a clear pattern of taxpayers fleeing high-tax states for low-tax ones emerges.

According to data from the Tax Foundation’s analysis of state and local tax burdens, the six states gaining seats have an average tax burden of 9.3 percent, on average about the 34th-lowest in the country. The states losing seats, on the other hand, have an average tax burden that is nearly 2 percentage points higher, translating to an average of about the 15th-highest in the country.

And as economist Dan Mitchell points out, the six states gaining seats have other tax characteristics that make them attractive to refugees from census-losers like New York and California. Texas and Florida each have no state income tax, Montana and Oregon have no state sales tax, and the remaining two states — North Carolina and Colorado — have a flat income tax rate….




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It’s great to see low tax states rewarded with more residents and more influence in congress and the electoral college. It’s even better to see the big tax and spend states lose all of that. When will the big high tax states ever learn their lesson?

 

Watching red states cut regulations and taxes and bring in businesses and citizens of high tax blue states is entertaining to watch. Particularly since the blue states double down by raising taxes more on the businesses and individuals that remain.

 

Big tax states will be on a downward cycle. They have lots of unfunded liabilities. That will require higher tax rates, which will force more people to leave, which shrinks the tax base even further.

Dumb policies.

Plus, it spreads their crazy all over the place when they move.

 

And this is after Biden The Usurper "added" 2.5 million blue-state residents and subtracted more than 500,000 red-state residents.

https://nsjonline.com/article/2021/...ore-residents-to-blue-state-population-count/

 

I hope that Bidens manipulation of the census numbers is challenged in the courts.