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This is from Public Affairs Research.

Six of the states studied rank among the the bottom ten in total state and local tax burden per capita: Mississippi (50), Alabama (49), Tennessee (48), Arkansas (47), Oklahoma (44) and Louisiana (43).

We are usually between 47th and 50th in everything. Being 47th in this category is not bad though.

"Six of the states studied rank among the the bottom ten in total state and local tax burden per capita: Mississippi (50), Alabama (49), Tennessee (48), Arkansas (47), Oklahoma (44) and Louisiana (43)."

I almost forgot Tennessee.

I'm not quite sure what it is, to be perfectly honest, but there's just something about eastern Tennessee................

I'm talking about the Knoxville-Chattanooga corridor and that region. It's positively, unbelievably gorgeous (HINT: just "this side" of Asheville, NC........the topic of "our previous discussion above"). No State income tax in TN. Just....................beautiful. We've driven through that area many times in our travels and it always just makes our hearts stop. I'd give it a serious look.

If my street has 10 families on it, and half pay $5,000 each in property tax while the others pay none, the per - capita taxation is a neat and tidy $2,500. right?

"per capita" is still an aggregate figure. Consider the percentage of people in Arkansas that receive (tax free) government benefits. Someone's payin' those people's per-capita, and I remember the govmint folks bein' excite that in 1998 they exceeded 59% graduation rate from High School.

We read, when we were moving there that home prices were very low....on average, but when we looked for houses? we experienced the same result. Statistics look very different when you look past the averages.

c'mon....the bent one was entrenched for what 12 years there? whaddya expect

Oh well, could be I just didn't know how measure such things, but I do remember having to report the number of rooms in my household for my personal property tax. Then there was my state income tax, .....hhhhhmmm.

LIke I said, it's gooooooooorgeous.