(Amazing how a long dead thread can suddenly come to life.)
the following states have no income taxes;Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, Wyoming.
New Hampshire, and Tennessee have limited personal income tax, levied only on dividend and interest income.
Those states may not have income taxes, but the sales and property taxes more than make up the difference.
Five states with the lowest tax burden
· Alaska 6.6%
· New Hampshire 7.3
· Delaware 8.4
· Tennessee 8.6
· Alabama 8.8
So let's address this.
Who would want to live in Alaska? If it isn't buried in snow and ice and dark around the clock, it is rainy, cold and damp, the sun never sets and you could use the mosquitoes as an alternate source of protein. And why would anyone want to haul freight into, and out of, Alaska? Even been on the Alaska Highway?
Delaware and New Hampshire both have nasty winters, state income tax and very few jobs. There is freight moving into those areas, but not much coming out.
Alabama and Tennessee have better winters, but state income taxes. Both have better prospects for freight coming and going, but the climate in the other seasons leaves a bit to be desired.
How about Washington state? No state income tax (yet). Lots of aerospace freight coming and going (at least for now, until Boeing follows through with their threat to move the assembly from the greater Seattle area to the more depressed regions like South Carolina). The Puget Sound region has several container ports, Tacoma, Seattle and Vancouver, BC. and quite a bit of stuff goes through them into and out of the Asian markets. And all the major trucking companies have terminals in the Seattle area. The weather is reasonably mild. The summers are never too humid and the winters rarely get too cold, and if you don't mind a little rain it can be a tolerable place to live.