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Re:Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about s... by __realtime on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @07:59PM (#13825732)
Glad you have that luxury, CA has some of the highest taxes anywhere and I would definitely be opposed to more.
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Re:Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about s... by Upvoter33 on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @08:08PM (#13825797)
um, not really. the property taxes are so broken that many people own multi-million dollar homes and pay for them as if they were worth nearly nothing. that said, sales tax and state tax rates are high, so if you just mean that, you are right.
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Re:Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about s... by sharkmerry on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @08:26PM (#13825921)
>> that said, sales tax and state tax rates are high, so if you just mean that, you are right.

This is a result of the property taxes being fixed(ish) though, isnt it? Since they cant get true value from that, they have to raise other taxes to make up for it.

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Re:Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about s... by acdha on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @08:22PM (#13825890)
https://taxfoundation.org/state-and-local-sales-tax-rates-20...

“The five states with the highest average combined state and local sales tax rates are Tennessee (9.46 percent), Arkansas (9.30 percent), Louisiana (9.0 percent), Alabama (8.97 percent), and Washington (8.90 percent).”

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Re:Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about s... by refurb on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @08:44PM (#13826066)
That analysis ignores the income brackets.

If I have the choice of living where the state income tax hit 8% at $50K vs. %9 at $200K, I'd gladly live in the state with the "higher" state income tax rate.

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Re:Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about s... by acdha on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:31PM (#13826404)
That wasn't the question, however, any more than the far more important question of what you get for those taxes.
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Re:Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about s... by DrScump on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:21PM (#13826330)
Most Californians live in areas with sales surtaxes, ending up at as much as 9.75%:

http://www.boe.ca.gov/app/rates.aspx?LETTER=S&LIST=CITY

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Re:Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about s... by jpobst on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @08:57PM (#13826156)
Tennessee has no income tax, so I'll gladly take 9.46% sales tax and no income tax over California's 8.48% sales tax plus 1% - 13.3% income tax.
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Re:Healthy California Act: proposal to make findings about s... by r00fus on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @09:06PM (#13826225)
You're free to leave anytime. Why haven't you? If you have, then your opinion is moot.
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