GenXguy
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
FICA taxed by states? FICA is a tax, but not a state tax.By extension, there are states where it is much easier to live when you are poor. I recall a detailed state by state look at lifestyle and income source, I think it was done by an investment bank. It covered stuff like pension only, where FICA is taxed by states, all sorts of income and expense variations. Then it broadly put the states into buckets for different life stages and life styles. Quite the eye opener. It attempted to present an arc of optimization during earning, accumulating, saving, and spending profiles. It tried to include COLA during those phases. Then there was discussion around the impact of doing it the "hard" way.
One problem there with putting states into buckets is that it varies a lot where you live in a state.