[quote=EconProf]You and a lot of others are leaving CA, ctr70. The sad thing is we are losing the middle class taxpayers, the wealthy taxpayers now subject to a 13% state tax rate (even on their 2012 income), and attracting the tax users. CA has 33% of the nation’s welfare recipients, yet only 12% of the population.
Keep us in touch with what you experience in WA as you settle in there.[/quote]
Any evidence that wealthy taxpayers are leaving the state (the OP notwithstanding, who has never actually paid 10% of income in state tax, nor would he ever)? That has not happened when taxes increased in CA in the past, nor is there evidence it’s happened in other states that have raised their top marginal rates.
