Posted on 01/07/2006 11:11:08 AM PST by wouldntbprudent
Where you live can have a big impact on how much you pay in taxes each year. The spread, according to numbers crunched by the nonprofit Tax Foundation, might not be enough to make you pull up stakes and move to a new state, but it can give you a case of tax envy. The state and local burden ranges from 6.4% (Alaska) to 13% (Maine).
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Well, Florida is pretty good - no state income tax, but sales taxes are a bit much at around 7%. No tax on food: Does Colorado still tax food?
Colorado doesn't tax food; but does have a sales tax running between 7-9 % depending on local, AND an income tax.
Working for the guvmint . . .
Now what we need to do is correlate this info to that thread a few days ago showing the Blue states were losing population to the Red states . . .
If Doyle's re-elected I'm leaving. My property taxes is off da hizzook!
As ususal, the MSM misleads.
Having left Oregon (a very high tax state with a 9% income tax) for Nevada (a state with no income tax and very low property taxes) I can tell you that these two are polar opposites in terms of the taxes that one pays. Yet this article claims that taxes in Oregon are less than Nevada, and that Nevada taxes are on a par with Kalifornia. Hogwash.
Likewise, the article misses the boat on Wyoming, another state with no personal income tax or estate tax.
One more thing about Nevada: the state may collect a lot of taxes through gambling (euphemistically referred to here as "gaming") but almost none of that money is paid by people who are having the equivalent of a gun put to their heads and told to pay up under threat of jail. If you don't want to pay a gambling tax, you don't gamble. This is quite different than an income tax; everyone has to work to live.
Seventy percent of the taxes collected in Nevada are collected from people who don't live here. So you all keep coming back, and bring your "gaming" money!
This report...
Massachusetts has lost thousands in population over the last two years, according to newly released U.S. Census numbers.
But the numbers do more than signal an...exodus from the Bay State...
It puts Massachusetts in danger of losing yet another congressional seat after 2010, when the House of Representatives is reapportioned.
"It's discouraging," said Phil Johnston, chairman of the state Democratic Party. "It means we're losing political clout with the Congress, and it's not good."
Since 1920, when Massachusetts had 16 representatives, the state has seen a steady decline, down to the current 10 representatives...
"It would be likely we would lose one (seat)," said U.S. Rep. Marty Meehan, D-Lowell. "But it's not out of the realm of possibility we could lose two."
Federal aid for various programs is distributed according to population, which means Massachusetts could start seeing fewer federal dollars...
One less seat also means less say in who becomes president of the United States.
"Assuming we lose a House seat, we lose a vote in the Electoral College, and someone else picks up a vote, (probably) in the south," ...
The dem legislature and the dem. gov. added another 3 percent this week to the gas tax of 26.85 per gallon.
It's crazy! And we can't do much about it. Just hang on for the ride.
Here I thought you Alaska residents had it made, with your yearly stipend from the oil revenue fund.
Yep, that's the one! Thank you.
Do you think these jokers have any clue why people are leaving??
Wow, and we were considering moving to N.C. Better look closely at even the Red states, I guess.
Pointing out the Maine is the highest taxed state? Our liberal governor HATES when people do that. Expect an irate phone call.
Now, if only Massachusetts could lose a couple Senate seats after the next census....
Fuhgetaboutit! I am just a few miles from the SC border. As soon as the kids graduate (in a decade) I am leaving NC. There has been an influx of Yanks and their sky high taxes. The pay here does not offset the taxes, so I would not even consider it. As soon as possible... I am outta here!
These jokers screw the system until it fails, then they move to the next state to screw up that state.
California liberals who have screwed up California are headed to Arizonia, Seattle, Nevada, Colorado...to do push their liberal agenda.
Lots of DUmmies moved to New Hampshire after destroying Mass.
What I want to know is who the hell in Ala has an 11% total sales tax, cause that boils down to local of 7 cents on the dollar
We did elect a Republican Insurance Commissioner this past year! He's from my neck of the woods; I know him personally; and he is a true blue conservative.
That's the problem with Yanks...they bring their bad habits with them.
I am not from Colorado but from Michigan
In addition, the legislature has been wooed by lobbyists to mandate that all dental offices purchase cardiac debibrillation units --- this despite the fact that dentists can not legally diagnose when such units could be deployed.
This in a Republican controlled state makes one wonder if, in fact ,there is a dime's worth of difference between the two parties.
Sheeyite! You're almost Kalifornia! Now, if only you could get your piggy legislature to stop stealing from your highway trust fund, so that all of that 30 cents/gallon would go to roads. Now, that would be good.
Well excuse me, I am a Yankee, just what bad habits are we referring to Johnny Reb?
BTW I am a huge admirer of Robert E. Lee
You hit the nail right on the head there and don't forget
Montana, Idaho and God forbid wild Wyoming
Yes, I was reading that in an article about real estate the other day. Said lots of (formerly) rural towns in N.C. were being overrun by people retiring from the northeast, upping prices, etc.
Hope they leave their politics up north.
Well, for one thing, Yankees have a warped concept of what Mardi Gras is supposed to be and that's led to a degredation of the holiday.
I know: if every conservative would just --
(1) fly an American flag on their house at all times,
(2) put a nativity scene in their front yard,
(3) put at least Rush Limbaugh bumper stickers on their cars,
(4) install gun racks even if you don't have guns, and
(5) walk around at all times wearing t-shirts that say "proud to be an American" or some variation thereof---
the RAT MIGRATION will stop real fast!!--
But Florida has been turning purple for a long while now. When I lived in Florida and you heard someone with a New York accent, you immediately figured they were from Miami!
The bad habit of Yanks a-voting for Rats, that's what! :-)
NC has the lowest cigarette tax...5 cents per pack. Of course, you also pay sales tax on the purchase. lol
CT... We're # 1! Yay!
All this does is remind me that my multiple thousands of dollars property tax bill is due in a few weeks!
Thanks!
NC has a lot of Half Backs...Yankees who went to Florida and headed by to NY and New England but decide halfway back to settle in NC.......an awful lot of them plus hippies in Asheville, NC.
This article doesn't accurately show the full taxation for Maryland where they have a county income tax that really boosts the State Income tax. I just left MD and hated tax day every year.
They are like cockroaches...you see one, but there are millions hidden in the wood work.
There's a reason people from The People's Republic of Maryland slip across the border to buy gas in Virginia!
I live in CT. We have a 6% sales tax, an income tax and my average home costs me more than $100/wk in property tax. Add to that, motor vehical taxes and a sewer tax.
If they find out I've got a well they might charge me for resource depletion!
The states dominated by demsheviks have very high rates.
Clearly, we must vote conservative!
Put up several security cameras with good motion lights to catch the rats on tape setting homes and businesses on fire.
The need to tax and spend by the Republican government in Florida mirrors what the Republicans have done at the federal level.
The analogy goes beyond having a Bush Brother as chief executive officer.
Well excuse me, I am a Yankee, just what bad habits are we referring to Johnny Reb?
Brookline and Cambridge Socialist vermin move out to live in the Organically Pure Suburbs or small Towns.
They buy houses near airports and Gun Clubs, confident that if they shriek enough, they will close these offending entities. Actual Cases: 1B9, and nearly any Rifle&Pistol club.
They demand the schools have an Astroturf Football field and an olympic Swimming pool FOR THE CHILDREN.
They file complaints with the Zoning Board and the Board of Health because of the smell of local horse and dairy farms.
We hear them on the scanner pestering the Police about a "Large animal in the yard"
Their kids bring Drug Problems.
Having now fouled the nest locally, driving up taxes to the point the original residents become Displaced Persons and have to trade down, things are not the "Green Acres" for which they hoped. They then move to New Hampshire, bringing their agenda with them.
Some of them move South. Southerners, being generally polite, do not recognize them in time, and tolerate them, and thus, the Camel's Nose is in the Tent, and before they realize what has happened there is a Glorious Red Dawn.
@%^&*, do I hate these $%^&* people.
Maybe some kind of a bounty system, like $5 for the ears....?
I can't wait to move from the People's Republic of Oregon where the property taxes are just killing us. I would gladly give up the no sales tax for no property taxes, but that'll happen when hades freezes over.
And the idiots here keep electing far left wackjobs so our taxes will only continue to rise. The only bright side is that we don't live in Portland where the taxes just keep going up. They think the solution to their awful edukation system is just to raise the taxes AGAIN. Morons.
Johnny Reb? I currently live about 60 miles south of the US/Quebec border. As to what bad habits? Continuing to vote for democrats; the consequences of which you are fleeing south or west to avoid. I moved to Tennessee five years ago, and it was great. Twenty four bucks to register a car, annual property taxes in THREE figures, homes that people with a middle-class income can actually AFFORD, NO income tax, and so on. Unlike most 'Yanks', I didn't move south to "fix things". I moved south for a taste of freedom from democrat oppression, and I hate to see the south or west ruined by people whose ideologies conflict with those of Southrons. I didn't see a lot of Planned Parenthood offices or gay parades while in Tennessee, either. I enjoy the 'Ten Commandment' yard signs, the friendly people, the local businesses proclaiming Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. I am headed back south later this spring, and I don't want to see the culture, character, and political ideology ruined by those who "think they know better". Are all 'Yanks' bad? Of course not. I married one. :-)
One could live in a state with no income tax and low property taxes near the border of a state with no sales tax. Best of both worlds. ;-)
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