AN INQUIRY into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States; Contents; Prologue; Chapter 1 The Fall from Grace: The Story of States 11 and the Income Tax Adopted; The Implementation of an Income Tax-A Terrible Mistake; That Giant Sucking Sound Is People, Output, and Tax Revenue Fleeing Income Taxes; Economic Malaise; Misleading Measures; Ohio; The Story of New Jersey-A Colorful Example of Opportunity Wasted; Lower Tax Revenue; The Rhetoric Surrounding Tax Revenue and the Decline in Public Services; The Case of the Disappearing Tax Revenue; Connecticut

No Bang for the Buck-How Costly Tax Increases Fail to Result in Better Provision of Public ServicesChapter 2 Economic Metrics; Primary Economic Metrics; Tax Revenue Performance of All States over the Past Decade; The ALEC-Laffer State Rankings; Internal Revenue Service Tax Migration Data; Chapter 3 The Nine Members of the Fellowship of the Ring to Balance Out the Nine Nazgûl; An Analysis of the Top Personal Income Tax (PIT) Rates; Public Services and the Personal Income Tax; The Effects of Oil and Severance Taxes; A Longer-Term View of the Data; An Analysis of Corporate Income Taxes

An Analysis of the Overall Tax BurdenAn Analysis of the ALEC-Laffer State Economic Competitiveness Index; Chapter 4 Piling On; An Analysis of the Property Tax Burden; An Analysis of the Sales Tax Burden; Estate and Inheritance Taxes; Right-to-Work Laws; Labor Force Unionization; State Minimum Wages; Chapter 5 Give unto Caesar; New Hampshire-Case in Point; Top Traders; Real-Time Mobility Index; Chapter 6 Why Growth Rates Differ: An Econometric Analysis of the Data; List of Variables; Gross State Product Growth: Single-Variable Analysis; Gross State Product Growth: Two-Variable Analysis

Gross State Product Growth: Three-Variable AnalysisPopulation Growth: Single-Variable Analysis; Population Growth: Two-Variable Analysis; Population Growth: Three-Variable Analysis; Population Growth: Four-Variable Analysis; Conclusions; Annotated Econometric Bibliography; Key Quotes from Econometric Bibliography; Chapter 7 Fiscal Parasitic Leakages: Texas versus California; A Tale of Two States-A 55-Point Summary; The November 2012 Elections in California and Texas; The People Have Spoken; Economic Performance: California, Texas, and the United States; A Brief Note on Poverty Metrics

The Texas Oil Boom and California's Oil Bust: A Clash of Economic CulturesAn Overview of Total State and Local Government Revenues-Texas and California; Texas, California, and the United States: A Comparison of Tax Revenue and Debt Financing; Policy Variables Affecting Growth; The Relationship among Taxation, Spending, and the Achievement of Policy Objectives-A Story of Parasitic Leakages; Intergovernmental Revenues, Federally Mandated Social Services, and State Welfare, Medicaid, and Food Stamp Programs; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF); Medicaid