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Texas has very high property taxes and sales taxes.

Posted on: December 17, 2021 at 09:44:08 CT

SparkyStalcup MU

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gets a lot of money from mining interests. Nevada has the gaming industry. All of these states basically tax their poor and middle class and give the a wealthy a pass.

Moving the tax burden from income tax to sales tax basically places a big regressive tax on the state.

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Serious proposal on the table to eliminate the state income - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 12/17 09:06:34

What’s the current percentage?(nm) - El-ahrairah BAMA - 12/17 10:55:18

Is that to attract football players with NIL contracts? (nm) - JeffB MU

- 12/17 10:39:40

so essentially a regressive flat tax - meatiger MU - 12/17 09:25:22

3% is 3%. Everyone should be a stakeholder. Today we have - DHighlander NWMSU - 12/17 10:02:31

Poor people pay a higher percentage of their income on - SparkyStalcup MU - 12/17 10:08:05

Likely not in WI.... Prescription medicine, groceries, - Spanky KU - 12/17 11:14:21

I think you missed my point. I don't care if it is - DHighlander NWMSU - 12/17 10:20:50

Government services like arrowhead stadium? - El-ahrairah BAMA - 12/17 11:08:37

Arrowhead generates much more revenue than it cost to build(nm) - DHighlander NWMSU - 12/17 11:12:11

Then why do poor people need to be taxed for it?(nm) - El-ahrairah BAMA - 12/17 11:25:44

Yes, I can see that you are ok transferring wealth from the - SparkyStalcup MU - 12/17 10:28:14

Popular and necessary consumables are excluded - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 12/17 10:13:12

No, they aren't always. And it's still regressive no matter - SparkyStalcup MU - 12/17 10:29:18

So do you believe that the poor should pay less for - DHighlander NWMSU - 12/17 11:16:03

The poor already pay a lot in taxes - meatiger MU - 12/17 10:06:23

probably want to sit this one out - pickle MU

- 12/17 10:04:31

There are 8 states currently without state income tax - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 12/17 09:32:41

lol no (nm) - pickle MU

- 12/17 09:49:50

Texas has very high property taxes and sales taxes. - SparkyStalcup MU - 12/17 09:44:08

Other people's money is so insatiable, isn't it? (nm) - ummmm MU - 12/17 09:47:45

Transferring wealth from the poor to the rich is not a - SparkyStalcup MU - 12/17 09:55:58

Or vice versa. - ummmm MU - 12/17 11:02:59

why are you dishonest? (nm) - pickle MU

- 12/17 10:02:46

Oh, I must have hit a sore spot. The troll with little to - SparkyStalcup MU - 12/17 10:10:39

That is simply not true - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 12/17 09:47:21

It would devastating for most of Wisconsin, but the Kohl - SparkyStalcup MU - 12/17 10:00:21

I am intrigued - Gavin Citrus MU - 12/17 09:41:15

Whether the state is running a deficit or a surplus - SparkyStalcup MU - 12/17 10:05:10

The Idiot offered two words and five letters with no - hokie VT - 12/17 09:53:42

RE: I am intrigued - meatiger MU - 12/17 09:45:36

RE: Serious proposal on the table to eliminate the state income - *M* KC - 12/17 09:19:30

Why would poor people move out?(nm) - 4TigersinMichigan MU - 12/17 09:19:52

The same reason rich people supposedly move away from CA - SparkyStalcup MU - 12/17 10:30:23

The poors want to be sure they're paying their fair share - mizzouSECedes STL - 12/17 09:24:06

Like gyro and karens everywhere, they lecture on - hokie VT - 12/17 09:26:11

I wondered that too. Probably racism. Not sure. nm - hokie VT - 12/17 09:20:34