Newsom was roasted for making an extraordinary claim that Florida and Texas, not California, are “the real high-tax states” — drawing a sharp rebuke from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. Newsom made the claim onstage at the SXSW conference Sunday in Austin, Texas — where he again teased a presidential run — claiming to attendees that Texas “taxes poor folks more than we tax our richest.” “Florida is the other regressive tax state,” Newsom continued. “Your middle class pays more taxes in Texas than our middle class in California.” nypost.com