<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b5ee3e4f-7bd7-4f26-bd7b-c1bd9757755e/AD3D3376-86A4-46D0-832D-AE9D63DCD4FE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_231.html" href="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_231.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.willisms.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_231.html"><P>In earlier Trivia Tidbits (<A href="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_207.html">#207: "Lower Taxes, Higher Growth"</A> & <A href="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_208.html">#208: "State Income Tax Comparisons</A>), WILLisms.com examined the policy ramifications of state income taxes, or the lack thereof.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_231.html"><P><U>The conclusions</U>: states that lacked an income tax saw stronger economic growth, stronger personal income growth, stronger population growth, and stronger job growth, than states with the highest income tax rates. States without income taxes also, shockingly enough (not!), had fewer budget problems than the states with the highest income taxes.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_231.html"><DIV>Here are the numbers, including the superlative states, those with the lowest and highest state and local tax burdens (<A href="http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2005-09-texaseconomy.pdf">.pdf</A>):</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_231.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.willisms.com/img/2A42F294-4440-4D5D-BA8F-CE008DC0AB5C" alt="stateandlocaltaxrevenues.gif" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_231.html"><P>Viewed another way (<A href="http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2005-09-texaseconomy.pdf">.pdf</A>):</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_231.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.willisms.com/img/A7B7CCDF-F5D6-45E6-9FC7-0CBA53906DBC" alt="taxesandgrowth.gif" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_231.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.willisms.com/img/BAA0AE94-FB30-4557-BBD0-803E505F1887" alt="taxesandpopulationgrowth.gif" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_231.html"><P>Just take a gander at the net flows of migration in and out of states from 1994 to 2004 (<A href="http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2005-09-texaseconomy.pdf">.pdf</A>):</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_231.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.willisms.com/img/89D6749C-FD42-4BEF-B3B5-118E6AFE43AE" alt="americansfeetvoting.gif" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.willisms.com/archives/2005/11/trivia_tidbit_o_231.html"><P><STRONG>Source</STRONG>: <A href="http://www.texaspolicy.com/pdf/2005-09-texaseconomy.pdf">Texas Public Policy Foundation (.pdf)</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AD3D3376-86A4-46D0-832D-AE9D63DCD4FE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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