I live in Oregon.
I hate it here.
Crap wages. Insanely expensive rent and home prices. Liberal/progressive inspired plague of crime and drug use.
Dear GOD, please let me live long enough to “go Galt” and expatriate myself and my wife to her home in the Philippines
I can’t say I believe some parts of that chart. The states I’m most familiar with, MS, TN, and AL, show that among the three MS has a higher sales tax than the other two. From personal experience that’s wildly incorrect, sales tax in parts of TN and AL will top 10% in certain areas since they both allow local taxes to be added on. MS has a 7% sales tax with a local option for an extra 2% but most areas don’t have that. That chart doesn’t look like it includes the local part of the sales tax, but I don’t care who I’m paying it to, just that I have to pay it. TN and AL as a rule have much higher sales taxes than MS.
Lots of nice places to move to at the bottom of the list.
California Sales & Excise tax is 3.16%??? Does not make any sense.
The statewide rate is 7.25% and Towns and Counties levy their own taxes on top of that. Alameda County is 10.25%. Los Angeles County is 9.25%. Santa Clara County is 9.125%. I’d guess 80% of the California population is paying 9% or more.
When I moved to California in 1973, it was 3%. There was an extra “BART Tax” added in Santa Clara County that brought it up to 3.5%. We never got BART.
The thing that hacks me off about Sales Tax is that it is automatically indexed to inflation because it is on things you purchase. So the increases from 3% to nearly 10% are very real and take a HUGE chunk out of your take-home pay. This hits young families the hardest when they are raising kids, buying furniture, cars, etc. We don’t spend much in retirement, so the hit isn’t that big, but the principal of the thing really galls me.
I think I’ll move.
Looks like I live in the state with the lowest tax burden. And as a senior citizen I get $218,000 knocked off the assessed value of my house, so my tax burden is even lower than that of the average Alaskan. Now if only I could do something about my federal taxes.
Minnesota has the 5th highest tax burden for its citizens, yet has a $12 billion surplus. Our Democrat controlled legislature now seeks to raise vehicle license fees. Minnesota has moved from being the land of 10,000 taxes to tax hell.
Alaska is the real standout
Surprised how low Delaware is.
This table is WAY off. The liberals are not including the “fees” the States are legally able to not call “taxes”.
For instance, Colorado has an “ownership tax” on a new car of about $900 but additional “fees” in excess of $400.
Fees are killing Colorado.