California’s top earners are now facing a combined 51.9 percent federal and state income tax — the highest rate in the nation — a cause for grumbling and, maybe, an incentive to move.
Millionaires Consider Leaving California Over Taxes
By ADAM NAGOURNEY, New York Times
Wed, 02/06/2013 - 12:02pm
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