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"High California taxes" is a meme. However, the reality is that if you own a home, taxation in Texas may be even worse than California.
by bsder 2y ago
"High California taxes" is a meme.
However, the reality is that if you own a home, taxation in Texas may be even worse than California.
- s1artibartfast 2y agohard to believe that is true if you adjust for the cost of housing.
- ryandrake 2y agoYea, it's a meme but let's not exaggerate. When you consider total[1] tax burden, including property tax, income tax, sales and other taxes, California is high, but not the highest, and Texas is low but not the lowest. There are many other states that also have lower taxes than California that don't have the massive cultural downsides of Texas. Honestly, if I were planning to move out of California (I probably never will) and wanted to pick a state to live in, there are a lot of factors that would come into play and taxes are probably not even top 5. It's just not that big a deal. 1: https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494 https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-bur...
- red-iron-pine 2y agoWA for example has no income tax as well. sales and property tax aren't trivial, and you'll get some weird cultural artifacts on either side of the Cascades -- literal Portlandia on one side, insane Idaho-militia-wannabes on the other.