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The statists love to pretend that taxes don’t matter in location decisions. Au contraire, my friends. As the Wall Street Journal reports ($, or provided here, for educational purposes), no less a liberal icon than Howard Metzenbaum found his way to an estate- and income-tax free state.

Sure, the weather in Florida is nicer than Ohio and that’s a reason people move there. But unless global warming turns the North Shore into another South Beach in terms of climate, Ohio is going to have to change its tax policies dramatically if we want it to be a place people, even liberals, come to, instead of flee from.

Tags: Taxes

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