tax evasion
so i've been thinking about ways to avoid paying taxes recently. as sort of a side tangent i was thinking about state taxes. consider. there is a richest state and a poorest state. presumably the richest state pays the most federal taxes and the poorest the least. oddly, the richest state has the highest state tax rate. and the poorest state the lowest. seems like a rich person would move to the poor state where their many dollars would buy multiple mcmansions. but this doesn't seem to be the case. hrm. if you live in a poor state you pay few dollars in federal taxes but you receive much benefit. which is a good deal. if you live in a rich state you pay lots in federal taxes but you get squat. a seriously crappy deal. so you vote to raise your state taxes. they're deductible from your federal taxes. your tax burden is the same. the difference is your taxes are now spent close to home where you might benefit from them. as opposed to far away where you won't.