Justin Fox: “It’s awfully hard to argue that taxes have been the main thing driving the California exodus, given that (1) it has been concentrated among the less affluent, (2) their No. 1 destination has been Texas… lower-income and middle-income people face higher effective tax rates in Texas than in California.”
Taxes Don’t Explain People Leaving California
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