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发帖数: 29846 | 1 人往低处流：因为人口增长而得到更多众议院席位的8个州的平均州所得税率是2.8%，
因为人口减少而失去席位的10个州的平均州所得税率是6.05%
Low-tax states will gain seats, high-tax states will lose them
By: Barbara Hollingsworth
Local Opinion Editor
11/17/10 10:00 AM EST
Migration from high-tax states to states with lower taxes and less
government spending will dramatically alter the composition of future
Congresses, according to a study by Americans for Tax Reform
Eight states are projected to gain at least one congressional seat under
reapportionment following the 2010 Census: Texas (four seats), Florida (two
seats), Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington (one
seat each). Their average top state personal income tax rate: 2.8 percent.
By contrast, New York and Ohio are likely to lose two seats each, while
Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey,
and Pennsylvania will be down one apiece. The average top state personal
income tax rate in these loser states: 6.05 percent.
The state and local tax burden is nearly a third lower in states with
growing populations, ATR found. As a result, per capita government spending
is also lower: $4,008 for states gaining congressional seats, $5,117 for
states losing them.
And, as ATR notes, “in eight of ten losers, workers can be forced to join a
union as a condition of employment. In 7 of the 8 gainers, workers are
given a choice whether to join or contribute financially to a union.”
Imagine that: Americans are fleeing high tax, union-dominated states and
settling in states with lower taxes, right-to-work laws and lower government
spending. Nothing sends a message like voting with your feet. |
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