Remember When Democrats Thought Taxing the Wealthy Was Good Policy?
18th December 2017
In fact, the states with the highest state and local tax burdens are California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin. Between them, these 12 states send exactly one Republican senator to Washington and all but one have gone Democrat in every presidential election since 1992. According to the Google machine, all of these states but Maryland and Wisconsin have recently raised taxes, and/or are planning on tax increases in the coming year.
What that tells me is, the people who live in these states want higher taxes. And the top income earners — Hollywood people, Silicon Valley techies, New York hedge fund managers who live in Connecticut — give huge amounts of money to the Democratic Party. They should be celebrating that their taxes are going up. Instead, some of these wealthy Democrats are apparently thinking of leaving. Lousy traitors.
Remember all those Democrat billionaires weeping and wailing about their taxes not being high enough? They ought to be jumping for joy.