This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Sunday, January 19th, 2020.

I'm Kila Brown.

The migration of Americans from high tax to low tax states

continues apace and state governments interested in growth and

opportunity for residents should be paying attention.

Cato's Chris Edwards takes a look at some of the new data.

Some data that was recently released gives us a picture of where people are moving to

and moving from among the several states.

What are the biggest out-migration states right now?

Well, there's about 600,000 Americans who move from high tax to low tax states every year on net.

The biggest outflow is from New York and the biggest inflow is to Florida. New York's a high-tax state and

Florida is a very low-tax state. Some of the other outflow states are Illinois, California, Connecticut, some of the other

inflow states or other low-tax states like Nevada and even some there's a number of colder states that are low tax are also in

migration states like South Dakota and New Hampshire. So taxes are clearly playing a role here.

So what else could explain that?

Well obviously people move to Florida because it's beautiful and sunny and a lot of retirees move there.

But again if you look at the detailed patterns that, for example, South Dakota is an in-migration state,

yet all the states around South Dakota are out-migration states.

The same is true of New Hampshire.

If you look at the 25 highest tax states, 24 of them had out migration.

If you look at the 25 lowest tax states, 17 of them had in migration.

There's a few outliers like Alaska's low tax and it is out migration but that's probably

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