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WA has high sales tax. Poor people pay a larger portion of taxes in WA compared to elsewhere.

CA has income tax and the sales tax is just as high.

> CA has income tax and the sales tax is just as high.

CA also has a property tax and capital gains tax.

Oh yes, and a business income tax, and a franchise tax... honestly curious if there is a tax that California doesn't have...

And yet somehow people keep moving there, and the NIMBY crowd keeps doing its best to keep folks out.