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Literally almost every blue state heavily taxes their wealthiest residents

Apparently not, according to these lawmakers from California, Connecticut, Illinois, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, and Washington
Officially launching on Thursday, the first-of-its-kind effort is led by state lawmakers in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, and Washington—collectively home to around 60% of the country's wealth. >

Damn, this is kind of big tbh. >

Of course Congress won’t act. The overwhelming majority of them are in the top 5% >

Many started out well off and ended their tenures fabulously rich. All on like a 150k a year salary. >

"If we raise taxes, they will leave the state and then we won't get anything"
Where do you think they got their wealth in the first place? From mooching off your state. Taxing them higher or make them leave, both earn more money for the state. >

How does making them leave earn more money from the state >

Why would they leave? >

Why wouldn’t they? Residency isn’t a big deal at all for a billionaire >

Yeah, if I'm a billionaire I would totally move out of state to somewhere like Mississippi or Indiana to avoid the miniscule hit on my wealth.
The wealthy aren't going to go anywhere. >

A billionaire moved from NJ to FL and they actually had a budget shortfall because of it. >

Source? >

Gargle on these google results. But really you can literally google billionaire moves from NJ creates budget shortfall. 
Let me know if you need more help boomer >

Much as I think people should Google shit themselves far more often than they do: 
You make the claim, you provide the source. It's not our job to verify your claims.
Since 2016, it's just not worth it to look up every claim made by strangers on the internet. Bring proof or don't make the claim. >

I personally don't feel a tax on unrealized gains is the way to go. But as they say in the article congress refuses to raise the capital gains tax to be anywhere close to the tax on wages, so they are in a tough spot. >

Congress is less likely to tax unrealized gains than they are to raise capital gains taxes, so I don't know why they are offering this as a solution. >

Because the solution is done at the state level and the states would be taxing this, not the federal government. >

That just makes it less likely, as anyone could easily move to another state, and no state is going to chase off their wealthiest residents. >

Literally almost every blue state heavily taxes their wealthiest residents, while red states have the lowest tax burdens on the super rich.  This was only exacerbated by the elimination of Salt deductions.