[willcipriano]

I mean to say state on down, including property taxes, sales tax, gasoline taxes, local payroll taxes. Could be wrong but if you had a house that went up in value over the past few years I could see a situation where the federal income tax you pay is less than your property tax bill alone.

Edit: The more I think about it the very poor pay no federal income tax and the struggling pay very little, they could easily exceed it with cigarette or alcohol taxes for example.

[roflyear]

Yeah only applies to very low income and in those cases most progressive states do give breaks on stuff like property tax.

[anamexis]

Fair enough, but for what it's worth, cigarettes, alcohol and gasoline are all taxed federally as well.