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these numbers make little sense unless you normalize to per-capita. CA and NY are probably still ahead, but less so. Then factor in people living at or below pr

these numbers make little sense unless you normalize to per-capita. CA and NY are probably still ahead, but less so. Then factor in people living at or below property line and so on, and after a while, it won't seem so unfair to the poor Californians.

ensignavenger 4y ago
Data is a little old, but it does not appear that CA and New York are really ahead- https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2017/04/17/how-states-rank-per-capita-federal-taxes/100577824/ https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2017/04/17/how...
- dragonwriter 4y ago
  NY and CA are pretty high on that list, but this is more current, and has them even closer to the top. Given that significant tax policy changes have occurred in the interim specifically intended to raise federal taxes on taxpayers from CA, NY, and similar states, that should be unsurprising. https://www.moneyrates.com/research-center/federal-income-taxes-by-state.htm https://www.moneyrates.com/research-center/federal-income-ta...
  - xyzzyz 4y ago
    > Given that significant tax policy changes have occurred in the interim specifically intended to raise federal taxes on taxpayers from CA, NY, and similar states, Indeed, residents of these states were underpaying federal income taxes, and the law was changed to remove the loophole.
    - dragonwriter 4y ago
      > Indeed, residents of these states were underpaying federal income taxes More accurately, federal tax policy was previously neutral on state tax policy, and now it has an active thumb on the scale deliberately attempting to push state tax policy toward that favored by less-successful states.
  - ensignavenger 4y ago
    The link I posted used 2016 data, and the link you posted uses 2017 data. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act mostly impacted 2018 taxes... so I would expect 2018 data to be even more different than the two data sets we have here.

ensignavenger 4y ago

Data is a little old, but it does not appear that CA and New York are really ahead- https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2017/04/17/how-states-rank-per-capita-federal-taxes/100577824/ https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2017/04/17/how...

dragonwriter 4y ago
NY and CA are pretty high on that list, but this is more current, and has them even closer to the top. Given that significant tax policy changes have occurred in the interim specifically intended to raise federal taxes on taxpayers from CA, NY, and similar states, that should be unsurprising. https://www.moneyrates.com/research-center/federal-income-taxes-by-state.htm https://www.moneyrates.com/research-center/federal-income-ta...
- xyzzyz 4y ago
  > Given that significant tax policy changes have occurred in the interim specifically intended to raise federal taxes on taxpayers from CA, NY, and similar states, Indeed, residents of these states were underpaying federal income taxes, and the law was changed to remove the loophole.
  - dragonwriter 4y ago
    > Indeed, residents of these states were underpaying federal income taxes More accurately, federal tax policy was previously neutral on state tax policy, and now it has an active thumb on the scale deliberately attempting to push state tax policy toward that favored by less-successful states.
- ensignavenger 4y ago
  The link I posted used 2016 data, and the link you posted uses 2017 data. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act mostly impacted 2018 taxes... so I would expect 2018 data to be even more different than the two data sets we have here.