Commentary
Common sense tells you this claim isn’t true, because everyone in California knows several people who have left for Texas to pay lower taxes. But the San Francisco Chronicle just headlined a story, “Yes, Texans actually pay more in taxes than Californians do.”
The story is based on this graph posted on Instagram by ITEP, the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy: The graph and analysis are misleading, Chuck DeVore told me; he’s the Chief National Initiatives Officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation and a former California assemblyman before he moved to the Lone Star State a decade ago….