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Disused_Yeti t1_jcn9cz5 wrote

amazing what taxing people for the collective good can accomplish!

texas should try it

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gopoohgo t1_jcneegs wrote

lazy political take.

Every locale will get their pound of flesh.

987K apartment on Capitol Hill: $5.6K property tax

1025K home in Dallas: $13k property tax

Know this in that we have friends who moved from the Dallas burbs to Newton MA. We asked how much more they were paying in taxes going from TX to MA and it was a wash; higher income taxes in MA were offset by lower property taxes.

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mediocre-spice t1_jcnh3ga wrote

Everywhere taxes, but not everywhere uses those taxes for the collective good

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MaxAmericana t1_jcneohv wrote

Bad comparison. Texas has no state income tax.

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noquarter53 t1_jcpezu0 wrote

DC does not have extremely abundant natural gas and oil fields to generate royalties. Really dumb take here.

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gopoohgo t1_jcnfaqs wrote

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.

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MaxAmericana t1_jcngmrr wrote

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/

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AnonymousCarolinaDog t1_jcnm5xg wrote

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

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9throwaway2 t1_jcnrze5 wrote

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.

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BrightThru2014 t1_jcnjhx3 wrote

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.

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putinsbloodboy t1_jcnfr7n wrote

No vehicle property tax either, cheaper gas, cheaper food

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jhperkins66 t1_jcnpguf wrote

Are you talking TX or DC? Because while I imagine the gas is cheaper in TX, there is no vehicle property tax in DC.

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9throwaway2 t1_jcns0yi wrote

plus you don't need a car to live in many parts of DC.

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