Comment on Jeff Bezos keeps selling Amazon stock after announcing his move out of Washington state

• wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  usnews.com/…/these-states-have-the-highest-and-lo…

  Oregon

  Oregon’s effective income tax rate of 23.37% for individuals

  Florida

  Florida – one of nine states without state income taxes, all of whom rank in the bottom 10 of FinanceBuzz’s burden list – had an effective rate of 15.52

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those numbers you just cited are the total effective state and federal income tax rates, and only the income tax rates. It doesn’t account for property taxes or sales taxes, which is how states without income taxes fund their governments. Oregon has no sales tax, for example, but in Texas we have a 7% state sales tax. Texas’s median property tax rate is more than double Oregon’s too.

    State and local effective tax rate

    Oregon: 10.8% Texas: 8.6% Florida: 9.1%

    The reason there’s such a crusade against income tax coming from the right is because property and sales taxes are much more regressive, shifting much of the tax burden to people who have lower incomes and letting the wealthiest keep more of their money. In the end, the total average tax burden is roughly the same in most states, it’s who pays that tax burden that’s different.

    I think every state should have an income tax and eliminate or reduce sales and property taxes. I think every state should implement capital gains taxes too. The wealth inequality in the US is out of control

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We don’t have sales tax in Oregon. The property tax is high but not horrible. Texas has a brutal property tax.

      Do you have context to what the diagram is claiming?

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      • protist@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The map I shared is the total average state and local tax burden by state, accounting for all forms of taxes. My point is the total tax burdens in Florida and Texas are only marginally lower than Oregon, so if you move to Florida, you’re going to discover you really aren’t going to save much money in the end, because you’re not Jeff Bezos liquidating $50 million in stock on a whim

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  • Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fuckin yikes! Are you sure it’s that high for State income tax?

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    • protist@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The numbers that guy cited include federal income taxes and Medicare/SS taxes

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      State is around 9.9 for Oregon vs Florida 0

      That number quoted at 23% is for various taxes and not just income

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