If you look at the performance of the zero-income-tax-rate states and the highest-income-tax-rate states, I believe a large amount of their difference is due to taxes. Not only is it true of the last decade, but I took these numbers back 50 years. And, there's not one year in the last 50 where the zero-income-tax-rate states have not outperformed the highest-income-tax-rate states.

It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.

You want to prove that Milton Friedman is a fascist? It's easy. Quote him.

People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

The zero-income-tax-rate states have far faster growth in tax revenues than did the states with highest income tax rate over this period.

The income effects in an economy always sum to zero.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.