Calif. ranks last on states tax list

California is tied for last place on yet another study of how and what states tax. The new report, entitled “Taxifornia,” is part of the California Prosperity Project by the Pacific Research Institute, a nonprofit, free-market advocate based in San Francisco. It assesses California’s tax burden, the structure of its tax system, and how they affect the state’s competitiveness. Taxifornia takes a different approach in analyzing states’ tax structure and illustrates that no matter how you slice and dice the data, California is a high-tax state...