Tax-the-Rich Blue States Want to Leave Wealthy ‘Nowhere to Hide’ (1)

Progressive lawmakers in a handful of blue states joined forces Thursday in a campaign to fire up energy for tax-the-rich policies in state capitols.

The effort is a way for Democratic lawmakers to counter arguments that wealthy residents will move away, and to broadly promote progressive tax policies, especially with Republicans controlling the US House of Representatives.

“Let’s make sure if they move, they have nowhere else to go because we’re all taxing them together,” Washington state Sen. Noel Frame (D) said.

The ideas have been floated before, and their prospects for passage are unclear. Lawmakers from four states—California, Illinois, ...