Saturday, April 2, 2022

Winners and Losers

This graph courtesy of John Hinderaker at Power Line, shows projected aggregate income gain or loss from domestic migration between the 50 states. The big winner is Florida, lesser winners are Texas, Arizona, and North Carolina. 

The big losers are California, New York and Illinois. My home state of Wyoming is a slight winner, and my new winter-residence state of Nevada is a somewhat greater winner.

All but one of the 9 states which do not impose an income tax are on the gained aggregate income side of the chart. Among states with no income tax, only Alaska lost income due to domestic migration. 8 vs. 1 cannot be a coincidence. 

Of course not having a state income tax is in some ways a marker for an entire set of attitudes toward the role of government. The gainer states tend to be governed by Republicans.