Florida has never had an income tax. With few exceptions, most of its wealthy are retirees or heirs, who don't have much income anyway. Texas does not have an

Florida has never had an income tax. With few exceptions, most of its wealthy are retirees or heirs, who don't have much income anyway. Texas does not have an income tax. Despite its century of oil wealth, it has fewer billionaires than CA or NY. These states don't have income taxes because they're unpleasant places to live at the best of times and nobody would choose to live their if they had to pay income taxes.