Go for it...hike them enough to force companies to relocate into the south. When your only real job is coffee shop barista...go figure your tax tax revenue plan.
When your only real job is coffee shop barista
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Add Carbon tax for the energy used to roast the beans (and heat the water).
Ah well, these morons will learn the first maxim of capitalism the hard way: money goes where it is well treated and leaves where it is not.
There is a corollary: bad money drives away good money.