your individual taxes and in fact, in the last three years, it has been very good for states. last year states collected more than $309 billion on individual income taxes, and that is 10% more than the states received the year before, and in this cash, it is crucial, because the income taxes make up more than one-third of total state revenues. i am joined by the washington post reed wilson who analyzed all of the census data, and reed, why are we seeing the increase recently? well, two reasons. first of all, coming out of the economic recession, and the recovery has been good for income incomes as the incomes have gotten stronger, so have the tax revenues, and the second has to do with the fiscal cliff from back in 2012/2013, and a lot of the wealthier individuals took their income out of the market, and took it out of the market before the fiscal cliff hit, because they thought they would have to pay more taxes after the cliff hit, so that the money taken out of the market ended up