As it is, we pay around 9% on the last dollar earned, plus some of the highest sales taxes in the nation. This state is gouging the hell out of people, yet they keep voting for Democrats. I'll never understand the mindseet behind that.
Sales Tax!!! I forgot all about sales tax- though we pay at least 8% here and I know when I got here (Wa. state) I was paying about the same sales tax in both places.
Tax wise my favorite place to live was Alaska- there was a 2% sales tax in Anchorage but nowhere else- no income taxes and every year each citizen actually GOT money from the state from the oil revenues. I guess some people have smart governments.
I can't fathom the need for more money with the way they already RAPE the people there. I am certainly glad the owner isn't paying the 10-15K but still at 5K a pop for houses in less desirable areas. The state must be making a killing in property taxes alone. Just a few hundred thousand on my mothers street alone. I find it so hard to believe they don't have enough money.
Here when they want to raise taxes they tell us they will have to cut essential services if it doesn't pass- fire and police always get threatened- I am sure it is the smae everywhere. If they would quit spending so much on entitlements and enviromental BS then they wouldn't kep falling short. Course our fellow constituents just voted twice to send more money to the wastelands more commonly known as public schools. We are headed the way of California - I guess it in inevitable since so many of us are transplanted from there. Hopefully my husband and I will pick the best (most profitable) time to sell and get the hell out of here.