(Gomer Pile: on) SURPRISE! SURPRISE! (GOMER PYLE: off)
Of the TOP 10 states with the HEAVIEST tax burden, only ONE (Wyoming) is a red state.
Conversely, of the 10 states with the LIGHTEST tax burden, only N.H.(which as an aberation, or more than likely, is on its way to becoming Blue as a result of all the Taxachusetts residents moving to southern N.H., coupled with many "Sandernistas"--Bernie Sanders' "progessives"--moving from here--Vermont--to northern N.H) is a Blue State.
http://www.census.gov/govs/statetax/04staxrank.html
"The tax burden weighs so heavily in some states that people have called the moving van to escape to a lower-tax state."
AS FOR ME I'VE HAD IT WITH THIS SOCIALIST-GULAG-STATE.
READ MY TAG—--20 DAYS AND A WAKEUP
What tag? Where do you live?
The Tax Foundation (of Tax Freedom Day fame) does.
By dividing the total amount collected by the state population in order to get the amount of tax per person and then comparing, the survey does not take into account tax revenues collected from non-residents. This pushes states such as Florida, which relies heavily on sales tax revenue from tourists, towards the top of the list.
These "statistics" are misleading. They assume that the taxes on mineral extraction (severance tax) are borne by individuals in each state, when as in Wyoming's case, (a state rich in natural resources), they are borne by the company doing the mining. If that is factored out, then Wyoming's ranking drops from 2nd to very near the bottom of the list with per capita taxes in the range of $1,500 annually.
Not for long in Texas. The Texas Republican Party is creeping to the left. New taxes, fees, and fines. The elected officials in session at the Enchanted Rock, in Austin, are spending like drunk sailors.
The stats are bogus. They have $2600 for Massachusetts and $1600 for Georgia, however, as a percentage of per capita income the Tax Foundation says that the two states pay roughly the same rate. In fact, Georgia's tax burden is slightly heavier.
Massachusetts pays more in taxes because we make more as individuals. Our tax rates are in the middle of the pack.
Michigan is trying real hard to become the worst state in the union.
The state has the highest corporate tax burden in the nation, said the Tax Foundation. And in spite of the high taxes, Michigan lost tax revenue in 2004, only one or two states to do so.
Michigan ranked dead last in creating new jobs in 2004, losing 45,000, and is near the bottom in income growth, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Our socialist loving governor, Jennifer Granholm, is pressing ahead with a European style tax boondoggle that will heap huge tax breaks on the big three automakers, while passing extra taxes onto retailers, professional services, wholesalers and thousands of small businesses.
Granholm, who’s punished the state with the nation’s highest unemployment rate, is following the playbook of European socialist leaders by picking tax winners and losers.
BTW, she's good buddies with hillary.
I see Ohio is the number 9 tax hell. Not surprising. Still wondering what we get for all the money this throwback to a depression-era economy hoovers out of our wallets.
Awful schools (unless you live in a very wealthy enclave), poorly educated low-tech workforce, business-hostile climate with businesses leaving or dropping like flies, antiquated tax code with "city" taxes that amount to taxation without representation, lousy roads given the high gasoline taxes, RINOs running the Statehouse, DeWine, Taft, Voinovich, etc, etc.
And the icing on the cake is you get to see the sun 3 days per year. Yippee.
At one time the license plates said, "Ohio. The Heart Of It All". More like, "The Horror Of It All".
A few more years until my tour of duty is up and then outta here...
This thread is a good argument for states rights, as originally intended. Let the majority of the local people choose the kind and amount of government they want and those who don't like it can move to someplace they like better. Like Social Security, it eventually becomes self-adjusting as fewer and fewer support more and more.
"The least state taxes per person are paid by those living in Texas, South Dakota or Colorado . . ."
Unless you're a property owner in Texas. In that case, prepare to shoulder more than your share of the cost for schools and government services. A redistribution of the tax burden here is long overdue.
We have a modest 4% sales tax which is calculated to 4.167% since retailers remit to the state 4% of the total sale, i.e. sale plus tax.
Food, drugs and periodicals are taxable. Collected taxes are taxable.
There's talk of raising the state sales tax.
The Hawaii state motto is "Ua mau ke ea o ka aina ika pono" or "The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness". I am sponsoring submission of a bill to change the motto to "Ka ching!"
You need to add in county, local, and school taxes, and then normalize for per capita income before making sweeping generalizations. When that is done, I think that total non-federal tax burden is around 10 % of income for all states.
Hell, no!