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Don't leave Washington... believe it or not you live in a well-managed, representative state that is both fiscally responsible and socially liberal.

Unless you are cashing long held stock in amounts > ~$300k / year in long term capital gains, you aren’t going to feel this excise tax very much (and probably not at all), since it only applies in excess > $250k. This is purely aimed at very rich techies, and they can easily avoid it by moving and then cashing out stock (it doesn’t follow you like it does in CA).

Kansas may be the best choice right now. In particular, Johnson County.

Many socially liberal policies, by nature of caring for people or building new things, require funds that fiscal conservatives might not like, so it depends on your balance of each.

Come to Colorado! Not the most fiscally conservative but we have the TABOR law which greatly limits the government's power to tax. Reason magazine said our governor, a Democrat, "might be the most libertarian governor in America".