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> In 2000, at least, California ranked 19th in combined state + local tax burden according to the U.S. Census Bureau http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_tax_lev

by anamax 16y ago

> In 2000, at least, California ranked 19th in combined state + local tax burden according to the U.S. Census Bureau http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_tax_levels_in_the_United_States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_tax_levels_in_the_United_... says that CA is 11th on a per-capita basis. However, Alaska (which is number 1) gets almost all of its tax revenue from folks who buy oil, most of whom are in other states/countries. IIRC, Wyoming, #4, is similar. I don't recall whether CT and DE, #5 and #7, get a lot of their revenue from corporate francise fees, which are also (effectively) paid by folks in other places.

scarmig 16y ago
In state level taxation. State and local taxation and spending, however, are highly coupled, and looking at state level taxation in isolation can be misleading. Especially in the case of California, where local property tax rates were made artificially low, and as a result state income tax and sales tax artificially high.