State Level Tax Receipts Up

Willisms – State government coffers are filling up once again. Tax revenues are once again up thus far in 2006. Indeed, despite some of the campaign rhetoric from Democrats about how Bush’s tax cuts have burdened state and local governments, revenues have been up consistently since the major 2003 federal tax relief package.

Damn Bush and those deficit-creating tax cuts!
/sarcasm
Seriously though, this is my favorite part:

…not all regions are created equal. Some states are growing more, some are not.
The Great Lakes states and New England, mostly blue states with relatively high state tax burdens, saw the slowest revenue growth, while parts of the country with a more low-tax libertarian streak experienced the fastest revenue growth.

Read the whole thing.