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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find it weird that OP wants to phase out 401ks because high tax states may be missing out on even more taxes as people with 401ks flee the state when they retire to escape those taxes.

It's almost as though these states designed their taxes to encourage retirees to leave.  The state can fix that if that was not the incentive they hoped to achieve.[/quote]

Obviously we need higher national (or interstate compact) tax and lower state tax to prevent a race to the bottom, but individual states can't force that. [/quote]

States can set taxes at whatever they like. [/quote]

As long as there are states without taxes, the rich will just move to those for at least 6 months/year to avoid the state taxes.  Not hard to do[/quote]

It's amazing that many states refuse to understand this.  Personally, I stomach DC income taxes but am seriously thinking of leaving over the estate tax, which amounts to 0.6% of total DC tax revenue.  Why drive higher income residents out over a tax that in aggregate collects so little?[/quote]

Because it's a lot easier to tax the dead than it is to take the living and working? Why do you care about the estate tax -- you can't take the money with you. And if you're a true conservative, you should expect your children to bootstrap it, not wait for an inheritance.[/quote]

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