The Midterms Came With Anti-Tax Fervor in States
- Tax increases struck down in states where Democrats made gains
- Bucking the ‘Republican caricature of tax and spend liberals’
Voters wait in line to cast ballots at a polling station in Modesto, California on Nov. 6, 2018.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergThis article is for subscribers only.
Democrats may have gotten their blue wave in 2018. But with it came a decidedly red anti-tax wave, too.
Voters in Maine, Missouri, Colorado, Montana, and South Dakota shot down various measures that would have increased taxes. In Florida, they made it harder for lawmakers to pass tax hikes, something supported by outgoing Republican Governor Rick Scott. North Carolina voters also lowered the maximum possible income-tax rate to 7 percent.