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Those numbers you just cited are the total effective state and federal income tax rates, and only the income tax rates. It doesn't account for property taxes or sales taxes, which is how states without income taxes fund their governments. Oregon has no sales tax, for example, but in Texas we have a 7% state sales tax. Texas's median property tax rate is more than double Oregon's too.

State and local effective tax rate

Oregon: 10.8% Texas: 8.6% Florida: 9.1%

The reason there's such a crusade against income tax coming from the right is because property and sales taxes are much more regressive, shifting much of the tax burden to people who have lower incomes and letting the wealthiest keep more of their money. In the end, the total average tax burden is roughly the same in most states, it's who pays that tax burden that's different.

I think every state should have an income tax and eliminate or reduce sales and property taxes. I think every state should implement capital gains taxes too. The wealth inequality in the US is out of control

Dude, I just explained how what I said relates to this article. It wasn't at all random. Hope you have a great night and get to set that phone down soon

Every state has taxes. I live in Texas and we have property taxes out the ass. The total effective tax rate difference between Texas and Oregon is something like 2%. The difference is even smaller between Oregon and Florida

Bro...Washington State doesn't have an income tax either

How about horseshit, apeshit, batshit, dogshit, and probably lots more. Each of these has a pretty specific use case

Jared Walczak, vice president of state projects at the think tank Tax Foundation, wrote in November that “a Washington state revenue official was probably moved to tears” with Bezos’ announcement that he was moving to Miami.

“And whether tax savings motivated his move or not, the implications for Washington are very real, and serve to illustrate just how dangerous it can be to design tax systems that rely so overwhelmingly on a very small number of taxpayers choosing to stay put,” Walczak wrote.

Jared Walczak is as dumb as a bag of bricks if he thinks the people or government of Washington state give two fucks about whether Jeff Bezos lives there.

In his post on Instagram announcing the move away from Seattle, Bezos said he wanted be closer to family in Miami and operations for his Blue Origin space venture. He did not mention taxes.

Lmao one of the richest men in the world decides he wants to live in Miami, where there are beautiful beaches and tropical weather, instead of Seattle, where there's drizzle, and ol' Jared says "See!! That's 'cause taxes!!" Jeff Bezos has so much money he wouldn't even notice the taxes he would've owed. I hope more states institute similar capital gains taxes

How? I'm not saying what the radio host covered in the article did was right...I just think the difference with how right-wing media operates is striking

The term "gaslighted" is used to mean a lot of different things these days...we might need a little more info on what transpired to be able to provide any helpful advice

Meanwhile, there's an entire right wing media machine that purposefully collaborates with Republican candidates and their campaigns

Check out this hot take from Politico:

Their initial aim was to stop Le Pen’s party winning an outright majority, which seemed a likely outcome a week ago. It seems instead their efforts may have handed the initiative to the other extreme of French politics, the far-left.

Mélenchon said the New Popular Front would want to implement its manifesto, including revoking Macron’s controversial pensions reforms and introducing big hikes in the minimum wage.

The extremism is horrifying!

I agree, but also they're different regions on this map. I'm more upset about being lumped in with Dallas. Ultimately when you're pumping large areas together, there are going to be dissimilar places within it, but they might also be more similar than some of us care to admit

I've always been partial to the name Pubert myself. It's pronounced "Pube-air."