States Where People Pay the Most (and Least) in Taxes

I’m originally from PA, and for the most part you’re correct about being taxed to death; however, I will give credit where it is due. Even claiming PA as my home of record while on active duty for 10 years, I was entirely exempt from state income tax while serving on active duty outside the state. They were also very lenient with exemptions for driver’s license, vehicle registration and vehicle inspection renewal requirements for active duty service personnel.

happens in the south too. In addition to home grown black democrats who were born with their hands out and a bone deep sense of entitlement, we have imports from NY, NJ, etc. who turned their previous homes into economic and regulatory hells, and then promptly upon alighting in Ga or FL start infecting the state with those same government loving attitudes. We call them yankees

Yeah. Just got those bills. $10/head/year
They call it a “per capita” tax. (shrug) So far they aren’t taxing pets. Yet.

One thing about Pennsylvania, the state has long maintained a very healthy GOP senate firewall against the city scumiticians and their parasite bases, as well as against rat governors like Fast Eddie. Right now the state senate has 30 Republicans and 20 rats, so tax hikes, gay “marriage”, and fascist bans against things like plastic bags, guns, and circumcision aren’t going to come easily in Pennsylvania.

I’ve read through comment #44 and believe many of the posters on this thread have misinterpreted the article.

The focus on on the taxes against a residence. The confusion occurs, I believe, because those property taxes are then depicted as a percentage of income.

The article isn’t addressing income tax, sales tax or any other fees/taxes; just state and local property tax as a percent of average income within each state.

I could be wrong, but that’s my take of the article.

Ya, Pa was a nice place to be from and great sports; but quality of life is crashing there.

No joke, I have friends who want to leave, make the place sound like a nightmare zone these days; tell me everybody does as they're told; scared to death to stand up and say hold on here Chester, on and on. They say it has really gotten worse over the last twenty years, but they are afraid to quit what job they now have and take a chance. Honestly though what really bothers them is what their kids will face calling Pennsylvania home.

We have a local guy here in Alaska (we live rural on the Yukon near Canadian border), that inherited a small piece of land near his home town up in mnts central Pa. His dad had bought the land, series of post card sized lots then tore down cheap rental hunters cabins and let trees grow up. So the guy here in Ak originally from Pa, has been in Ak 36 years. He kept paying prop taxes back in Pa. So now, they got city sewerage coming through. Local community sent him a bill for hookups on the series of lots even though there wasn't a house anywhere on the property. It was like 30K or something. They never contacted him even though they had his Ak number, just ran the hookups and sent him the bill and they expect him to pay monthly bills for sewerage too, even though no houses on property. He's fighting it, and the local govt complained that what kind of a guy was he? AS he was the only person to complain about what they were doing and they needed the money. You see it's the mindset back in Pa. Just raise the taxes, charge them more fees & permits, the chumps are too scared to murmur a word or contest it and local govt knows it.

Ya know, there are other places in our country that it ain't that way folks; why even deal with that garbage?

Where I do draw the line, when these questions are posed to me: “Girl, you Vietnamese?” or “Do you speak English?”

My Vietnamese wife of 31 years talks so much no one ever asks about the English. If someone asks if she is Korean, she tells them with a smile "No, Vietnamese." and they are off on a 30 minute conversation. I think most people are just curious, and don't mean to offend.

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