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by __realtime 3391 days ago
Glad you have that luxury, CA has some of the highest taxes anywhere and I would definitely be opposed to more.
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um, not really. the property taxes are so broken that many people own multi-million dollar homes and pay for them as if they were worth nearly nothing. that said, sales tax and state tax rates are high, so if you just mean that, you are right.
>> that said, sales tax and state tax rates are high, so if you just mean that, you are right.

This is a result of the property taxes being fixed(ish) though, isnt it? Since they cant get true value from that, they have to raise other taxes to make up for it.

https://taxfoundation.org/state-and-local-sales-tax-rates-20...

“The five states with the highest average combined state and local sales tax rates are Tennessee (9.46 percent), Arkansas (9.30 percent), Louisiana (9.0 percent), Alabama (8.97 percent), and Washington (8.90 percent).”

That analysis ignores the income brackets.

If I have the choice of living where the state income tax hit 8% at $50K vs. %9 at $200K, I'd gladly live in the state with the "higher" state income tax rate.

That wasn't the question, however, any more than the far more important question of what you get for those taxes.
Most Californians live in areas with sales surtaxes, ending up at as much as 9.75%:

http://www.boe.ca.gov/app/rates.aspx?LETTER=S&LIST=CITY

Tennessee has no income tax, so I'll gladly take 9.46% sales tax and no income tax over California's 8.48% sales tax plus 1% - 13.3% income tax.
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