... States that continuously lacked Right to Work protections for employees from 2012-23 lost a net total of $2.05 trillion in cumulative AGI solely as a consequence of domestic out-migration of taxpayers during that 11-year period.
“Both because of their substantial net taxpayer losses due to domestic migration, and because the taxpayers they gained reported $13,469 less income apiece than the taxpayers they lost, forced-unionism states lost a total of $65.7 billion in AGI in 2021 alone.”
A lower cost of living lets workers stretch their paychecks further—especially in Right to Work states, new data shows.