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Originally Posted by the urban politician
Causation versus correlation. I’ve had this debate before.
You incorrectly link high taxes with successful States as somehow the former being causative of the latter.
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No, I made no such inference. In fact I argued against the opposite claim; which was that higher taxes harm states. There doesn't appear much of a relationship between relative tax burden and relative economic health.
Connecticut has arguably underperformed in recent years, but it probably isn't related to tax burden, which, again, is notably lower than in adjacent states.
Connecticut is like 90% suburban, and suburbs have underperformed relative to center cities. So yeah, all those suburban office parks and giant homes deep in the woods haven't done quite as well as closer-in locations.