[Agent Smith]

The most hilarious thing is that RINO Pataki is stupid enough to think that he has a future on the National Republican Ticket.

[flushing_kenny]

Sheldon is a lying piece of c**p. NYS spends more on Medicare than FL and CA combined. The NYPost did a big expose on how a couple of reporters were able to quickly and easily find examples of fraud in Medicare billing.

That's just the tip of the iceberg. In addition there is rent control, high State and NYC income tax, plus small little taxes here and there on any possible economic activity.

Simply put, this state continues to drive away businesses and families. If I wasnt earning so much in the financial industry, I would have left already.

[Alberta's Child]

New York State tax burden ping.

[VeniVidiVici]

...said the Democrat-led Assembly has worked to cut property taxes, eliminate the sales taxes on clothing costing under $110, end the marriage penalty tax and "provide tax relief for families that really need it."

But they just can't seem to get there, I take it?

[irv]

WE'RE NUMBER ONE! WE'RE NUMBER ONE!

And they say New York politicians can't get anything done ...

[ImaGraftedBranch]

Here in Alabama we had the lowest burden, but still had record revenue surplusses this year. Take THAT and smoke it, Libs.

[nutmeg]

Connecticut ping!

Please Freepmail me if you want on or off my infrequent Connecticut ping list.

[Koblenz]

I think taking the average tax burden of the populace isn't that good of a measure.

If you want to see which state SPENDS the most, well then, measure how much each state's governments (state and local) spend on stuff, and divide by the number of people.

If you want to see which state TAXES the most, then a better way to do it is to make an assumption about a "typical" someone: income of $60,000, etc. and figure out what the tax burden would be.

I imagine NY would be high on the list. However, other states could be running bigger per-capita deficits, or get more transfer payments from Uncle Sam, or whatever.