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One of the often-used arguments against raising taxes on high-income earners, like Colorado’s Initiative 195, is that higher taxes on upper-income households will trigger an exodus of wealthy taxpayers to Florida, where they will apparently spend the rest of their lives keeping the pickleball industry solvent and explaining to their neighbors that they used to […]
What the research says about whether higher taxes cause wealthy households and businesses to leave—and what that means for Colorado. Colorado’s tax code is unusual. The state has a flat income tax, meaning a gas station cashier and a millionaire pay the same income tax rate. Colorado also relies heavily on sales taxes, property taxes, […]
