gopoohgo t1_jcnfaqs wrote on March 18, 2023 at 2:30 AM

Reply to comment by MaxAmericana in Recent DC Trip by HereComesHR

You don't math or read.

As above, property taxes in TX are much higher. As are sales taxes (8.5% v 6.25% in MA)

For our friends (dual income, 3 kids) taxes were a wash.

You can't escape taxes. "No income tax states" will get their pound of flesh somehow.

MaxAmericana t1_jcngmrr wrote on March 18, 2023 at 2:41 AM

This is just easily, provably false.

For 2021:

Texas state tax revenue per capita: $2.982

DC state tax revenue per capita: $15,398

(For good measure, Massachusetts state tax revenue per capita: $6,545)

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/state-collections-per-capita/

AnonymousCarolinaDog t1_jcnm5xg wrote on March 18, 2023 at 3:30 AM

Since Texas’ (notably high) property taxes are collected at the local level instead of the state level, wouldn’t your link about State Government Tax Collections be leaving out a fairly big piece of the equation?

One of many issues when comparing a state to a city, right? Like DC vs Austin seems like a more useful comparison— I would expect people in Austin pay less but not by some massive amount

9throwaway2 t1_jcnrze5 wrote on March 18, 2023 at 4:26 AM

DC combines local and 'state' taxes. Texas decouples the two; you can't compare the two that way. Look up total tax burden. Heck, DC is lower than MD or VA for a typical family.

BrightThru2014 t1_jcnjhx3 wrote on March 18, 2023 at 3:06 AM

Genuine question — do you really believe that the average net tax burden (or even net CoL) for a married family of five is equivalent in DC and Texas? Because this is Trump 2020 election levels of delusion jfc.