I pretty clearly laid out why Florida is able to have lower overall taxes based on their immigrant from other states retiree population, so clearly you'll be able to pick a state that has higher overall taxes and just as clearly what Florida has going for it isn't replicable in IL even if we put you in charge and you got to implement anything and everything you wanted. As Kansas so nicely showed us with the complete and utter failure of the trickle down "Kansas Experiment" which to be honest was a pretty cool experiment with some very similar controls in adjacent states. Cool for everyone except the residents of Kansas I guess. Let's be reasonable here and not try to compare Illinois apples to Florida oranges.
Comparing it to one of the most mis-managed state governments is irrelevant. R1234 was missing the fact that FL gets it revenue through taxes other than income tax.
I've been looking at property taxes in a number of places such as Boca Raton and Tampa area - they are lower on a absolute basis and on a percent-of-home-value basis compared to NY. I believe FL and TX rely more on sales tax and other consumption based taxes.
And to be fair, your overall tax rate in FL even if you take into account sales taxes will be lower than in NY, IL, or CA for reasons I described. If you want to start a tech company, no better place than CA and the tax burden is never what makes or breaks that type of company and in the end is pretty irrelevant. If you want to retire, FL is is great place and the tax burden may be a bigger part of your decision matrix depending how well the starting your company in CA thing went. You can't reduce this to simplistic "my taxes are lower than yours therefore I'm better" analysis, and most of the country's real job creators don't, that's my main point.
Florida does not have a state income tax. How many times do I have to type it? Want to go for round three?
Of course they don't which is why I showed how high Illinois property tax is and ILLINOIS has state income tax. Capiche?