I went over to Fox this morning while Ed Rendell was blabbing on MSNBC. Their guest

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6. I can't watch Fox because my head explodes from the dissonance

but each State has their own State Tax laws aside from the Federal Tax Laws. States with lower taxes probably get some businesses for that reason.

Example: Alaska has no State taxes, but because they have Big Oil drilling there they have a deal where everyone gets paid a stipend by the State once a year. In other words the State pays all Alaskans instead of the other way around.

And within some States there are areas where the taxes are higher or lower compared to other parts of the State. Sometimes taxes fluctuate, such as Gov. Brown in California wanting to raise taxes temporarily in order to pay off debt and boost the economy.

There are others here who know much more than I do about this subject.