How many Walmart's worth? (Not a joke, genuine question) Big numbers are meh and for the clicks, just tell us what the aggregate state income tax delta is (federal taxes still getting paid). It's not a total loss, people will still move and work in the locales these jobs moved from, as well as pay property taxes (as real estate prices and rents aren't going down in CA and NY from all available data).

If California and New York want those dollars back, extract it through the federal government and the top 40% of taxpayers who pay federal income tax and can't avoid it (congresscritter hustle). You know, like red states do [1].

(tangentially, this will not age well when Texas and Florida come with their hands out for climate costs [2] [3]; grab those bootstraps y'all)

[1] https://wallethub.com/edu/states-most-least-dependent-on-the...

[2] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/florida-and-texas-are-expe...

[3] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aal4369

Not enough to even notice. I live in Texas. They always have some blurb about X company moving to Dallas and "creating" 500 jobs, and that's the last time you hear about them until they pop up in a WARN notice.

Yeah, but they vote the “wrong” way so they’re not important. /s