California, New Jersey, Illinois, Mass, etc are hardly the poster children for low taxes, kemosabe.
You do realize those are all net-donor states and pay more in income tax to the feeds than they receive in spending? When you receive $.61 of your taxes spent in your state (New Jersey) it doesn't take a genius to see that a couple billion budget deficit would easily be covered.
But clearly the only way to the future is tax arbitrage, it's so successful!