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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.

You definitely need to stay out of the cities, but hey, he's talking about retiring so he needs to stay out of those anyway. My friend has a very nice old tourist house made of stone on the lake, huge long deck on the second floor. The house is from back in the 50's made of local stone and looks out of date from the outside but is great inside. He's in a north central county up fairly near the Missouri border. His taxes are very low being out in a rural area. He paid $62,000 for the house two years ago. Has the deck, the lake, 2 car carport, half-basement, two bath, four bedrooms, two kitchens, two living rooms, dining room. The house is divided so that you could block off the top floor and enter it from the front as one apartment and enter the bottom floor from the back as another if necessary.

I live in a mid-size city in a modest house and my personal property tax is nothing and tax on my house is probably about national average.

Arkansas does have an income tax but its pretty low.

The main complaint is that they collect sales tax on groceries and food items. Hate that.

The REALLY big complaint is that the government seems to want to issue bonds on anything they want to do rather than pay as they go. There was even an effort by the bond traders to get us to buy bonds for our tobacco settlement money so we could "get it all at once, spend it all at once (waste/steal it all at once", and pay them back for years with interest. That sort of thing is REALLY hard to stomach.

But thats why I want all good freepers from Alaska to move here and vote actually :-)