If you live in a financially troubled red state, and you are a GOP?
Look at Illinois. To keep paying their pension debt they keep cranking up taxes. But this is driving people out. Illinois has less taxable income. So, what do they do? Raise taxes again. For those left in Illinois it is turning into a tax hell. So, what do you do? Make Illinois taxpayer complete serfs or have them leave and turn Illinois into Detroit writ large?