Never forget he moved away from CT because they were boning him tax wise (5%+ income tax & 6.35% sales tax) to move to WA where he won't get boned (10.35% sales tax, ignored the ~1% B&O tax). Funny enough, CT lowered it's income tax rate since he left, so the difference when you include income & sales tax is lower there. Not to mention WA, specifically the Seattle area, is near the top in terms of cost of living expenses too.
And the sales tax matters because dumb fuck spends every dime he makes.
*also hilarious, Seattle/King County has a very high alcohol tax too, something like 20% I think?