Thanks for the correction! The graph disappears for me around the 80th, so I didn’t know you could click in the invisible part and still see numbers. I assumed the trend continued.
The differences, however, are pretty minor (a few hundred dollars to $1,500 at most from what I spot checked), whereas in the differences are thousands and tens of thousands of dollars after the 80th percentile. So it seems like the top 20% in CA earn sufficiently more than the top 20% in NY to far outweigh whatever extra 30% to 70% in NY earn.
if you look at taxes, it depends on what kind of taxes you count, for example North Dakota's severance taxes makes it rank #1 in the nation, but it's from drilling for oil/gas
But if you look at the highest state spending per capita
#1 is DC, so it's the "richest state" even though it's not a real state, with #2 Alaska spending the most per each resident of which there are not much
The conclusion is that California in reality doesn't spend the most on its residents
