• Vytle@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wyoming all have no state income tax. Am I missing something, or is this graph just misinformation?

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      6 months ago
      • Sales tax
      • Property tax
      • Income tax

      Pretty well every state charges a combination of those to fund their state. Some have all 3, some rely on just 1. But they all combine to be part of a person’s tax burden.

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      6 months ago

      The states that rely on sales taxes for most of their income are the most likely to tax the poor the most, since the poor spend more of their income.

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        6 months ago

        As a proportion of their income maybe, but X% sale tax of one rich dude’s glamour item(s) - expensive cars, boats jewelry, fashion, etc) could exceed the taxes from many many lower-income essentials.

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        6 months ago

        I don’t buy this, man. Groceries aren’t taxxed, and I just don’t see how a lower income individual could physically buy the same amount of taxed goods as a multimillionaire