High Tax Blues

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ten states are seriously considering significant tax hikes.

A free fall in tax revenue is driving more state lawmakers to turn to broad-based tax increases in a bid to close widening budget gaps.

At least 10 states are considering some kind of major increase in sales or income taxes: Arizona, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin. California and New York lawmakers already have agreed on multibillion-dollar tax increases that went into effect earlier this year.

A total of twelve states are mentioned in the article. Significantly, eleven of the twelve are indisputably blue states. Only Arizona leans more to the right. How is it even possible that people don't see this? Do Democrats (the voters, not the politicians) really care so much about "helping the poor" that they are willing to be taxed to the poor house? Are they so completely uninformed that they don't know that there are states that are doing quite well with no income taxes at all? Or are they really just that stupid?

I suspect that understanding the answer to those questions and figuring out how to leverage that information could change the world.