>I never that said taxes cause high paying jobs.
>Of course that's absurd.
>You postulated the notion that "producers" run from high taxes.

Not a postulation - no matter how you slice the data, jobs, taxpayers and total taxable income are leaving high tax states and arriving in low tax states.
The IRS own data show that.

>I showed you case after case where your "producers" are not only not running, they are milking the very system you condemn.
Crony capitalism and the fat cats it breeds are a consequence of increasing government power, yes.
We don't disagree that is a bad thing.

You are conflating "producers" with high earners.
I was counting taxpayers and total taxable income.

>Just who are these epically heroic "producers" you revere, Mel?
Taxpayers

I am not Mel.