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Good-Expression-4433 t1_iunhi5i wrote

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The total tax rate for lower and middle class individuals is actually lower in California than in Texas. California just taxes the top 1% far more than Texas does.

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Beebeeleen t1_iunjta6 wrote

California ranks bad on taxes.

https://taxfoundation.org/state/california/

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Good-Expression-4433 t1_iunmdbe wrote

Because that's looking strictly at the top end of the individual rates. Lower and middle class total taxes, when you start adding in the tax burden from the combination of all taxes paid in a given year, ends up being lower. The "average" gets skewed because CA hits their top end massively harder than states like Texas and Florida, thus pushing the average higher than it is for most of the actual citizens.

Young people are leaving RI but it's not for their individual tax burdens.

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Beebeeleen t1_iuno5n1 wrote

Yes, you have been right about personal income tax... I will not comment about Rhode Island since this state's taxes hold no bearing on taxes in California.

If we focused exclusively in personal income taxes then California's tax system would appeal to most people outside of business owners, corporations, and the rich.

But the government (federal and state) taxes more than income. Taxes can involve sales, property, and other things.

As a whole, California does not rank very well.

https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-tax-revenue-system-isnt-fair-for-all/

In the link above, the writers feel some tax rates are great (such as personal income, since the writers say it is progressive) but others are bad (such as sales taxes since the writers claim it unfairly hurts poor and working class people).

I was raised in California. I never met anyone who liked the tax system there. Whether poor, working poor, middle class or wealthy, someone has a gripe with the tax system. The links kinda show how people with different political views can view the same system as good and bad for very different reasons.

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bluehat9 t1_iuo574a wrote

Does anyone like any tax system anywhere?

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Beebeeleen t1_iupjfdm wrote

Not all taxes systems are equal. People HATE California's tax system. Contrary to Good-Expression's claim about the taxes being lower, California has a notoriously bad tax system that negatively impacts more than the wealthy. Plenty of people seek to leave the state because of the system.

I lived in the midwest (specifically, Michigan). The tax system was not as bad. I can say that we felt a change here in RI (sales tax is pretty bad here).

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