“I divided the country into the 25 highest-tax and 25 lowest-tax states by a measure of household taxes. In 2016, almost 600,000 people moved, on net, from the former to the latter,” writes Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at Cato in his study Tax Reform and Interstate Migration. “People are moving into low-tax […]
California: Driving Away Success
Is your state’s heavy taxation and regulation hurting your business? More people are feeling that way all the time, as I wrote in this piece on July 9, 2018. Despite the allure of Silicon Valley, Hollywood and it’s natural beauty, California has succeeded in driving away a “small but statistically significant percentage of high-income residents […]
Cato’s Freedom in the 50 States Ranking
The Cato Institute has released its much anticipated Freedom in the 50 States ranking. Scoring best of all fifty states was Florida. The researchers who put together the scores highlighted Florida’s lack of an individual income tax and the Sunshine State’s economic freedom as its top draws. Here’s what they wrote about Florida: Lacking an […]
Tax Cuts to Improve Your Retirement Portfolio
President Trump has a golden opportunity for a second round of tax cuts by indexing capital gains for inflation. I can’t tell you how many times investors have wanted to make their portfolio more conservative but did not because of onerous capital gains. In other words, they kept more money in stocks, against their more […]
How Red States are Winning the Jobs War
It turns out that one of the keys to business success is lowering costs. That doesn’t just mean for raw materials, but also for government imposed costs like taxation. The places doing the best job of lowering those taxes and attracting more business are red states like Texas. In The Wall Street Journal, James Freeman […]
State Tax Update: Are Yours Going Up?
On this site, I regularly highlight the good and bad of states’ tax structure (read here, here, here, here, and here for starters). I want business owners, investors and retirees to have the best information possible in order to make their decisions about where to operate, live, and retire. Now, The Tax Foundation has released an […]
Viva Las Vegas!
Whether Las Vegas real estate is in a bubble or not–this article leans towards not—Californians are finding greener pastures away from Gov. Brown’s reckless policies. As I’ve noted in the past, the direction of individual states is a geographical portrait of right vs. left (wrong) ideologies. Eli Segall writes from the Las Vegas Review-Journal: Las […]
It’s Simple: Retirees Go Where They are Treated Best
For years retirees have flocked to Florida for its warm weather, and more importantly to many, its low taxation. But with the flood of people have come high home prices and subsequently, high property taxes. Now, many retirees are looking deeper into the American South for low cost places to live. A group of them, […]
Vermont’s Relocation Grant, Really?
I keep a regular eye on the way states treat their citizens. I regularly warn readers here to avoid those states papering over their structural problems with higher taxes and freedom-restricting regulations. At the same time I applaud those states where entrepreneurs and businesses are rewarded for their hard work and innovation with lower taxes […]
Work, Live and Save Money in these Three Power States
My take-away from this excellent piece by Joel Kotkin is that keeping more of your money matters. In other words, state taxes matter. Look at the magnetic pulling power of the three power states in the sun belt with no income taxes: Texas, Tennessee, and Florida. It turns out state lines can be re-drawn with […]
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