California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) is seeking voter approval for a mid-decade congressional redistricting in response to the new maps that Texas lawmakers are in the process of approving. Meanwhile, state officials in Georgia, South Carolina, and other states are seeking to follow the Lone Star State’s lead on tax policy.

In South Carolina, which had the nation’s fastest population growth due to domestic migration last year, leading contenders to be the state’s next governor have committed to phasing out the state income tax, while sitting state legislators are in the process of reducing and flattening the state income tax. In neighboring Georgia, meanwhile, Lt. Governor Burt Jones (R) recently launched a committee tasked with formulating a plan to phase out the state income tax in the coming years.

The Georgia Tax Elimination Committee, which is a bipartisan committee comprised of members of the Georgia Senate, held