Washington State. Not that Washington. The good one.(tm)
See https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/a-major-... if you don't know what I'm talking about.
Nerds love gloom and doom!
It is. Roads in the Bay Area are among the worst in the country, despite this region producing enormous corporate profits. Nearly all the companies here operate in an eternal tragedy of the commons, whereby nobody will pay local taxes because nobody else does. All the companies in California are actually Delaware companies, and the income inequality and quality-of-life disparity is a direct result of this kind of corruption.
From my understanding, being a Delaware company saves you $0 in taxes. All of those corporations are registered as foreign corps in CA and paying taxes just as if they were CA-based corporations. Taxes aren't why you do DE.
Why would you call that corruption?
Corruption from whose perspective?
How much impact do you think that has on roads being maintained or not (or more generally, local/state funding and budget management)?
To answer your question, I would say this has has high impact on the quality of life here, including the roads, education systems, policing, safety, and everything else in society. Everything is interconnected, and our society's structures are built with the assumption of no corruption. But there is a lot, it's pervasive and defining, and it has numerous consequences like poor quality of life for a lot of people in a high-expense area.
> Systematic wealth collection by mega corporations and individuals, structured to increase their wealth and the expense of the poor.
What do these have to do with different income tax rates in separate states?
Its like you had a google alert on "corruption" and had all those responses on your clipboard regardless of the context.
My approach was to ask OP for elaboration just for the comedy of watching their argument fall apart, but with the opportunity that they had a sound clarification or new information I hadn't considered.
Today we got comedy.
Many states and some entire countries simply don't fund themselves by stealing from people's paycheck, but usually passively tax other kinds of transactions.
There are lots of opportunities using combinations of the 50 states, territories and non-US jurisdictions.
Why would you even do that, it adds nothing to the discussion, it just polarizes views. There are interesting questions to be asked about taxation and welfare but we aren't going to get that now are we.
Colorado springs is one of the most conservative cities in America. In fact, I'd argue it's more libertarian than ever—hence the weed.
We're used to waves of people moving in though and that's probably also what makes it somewhat less felt from the newcomers. We call ourselves the friendly state because of our welcoming attitude. However, I think if we ever flip from red to blue the pre-recession Texans are going to freak out.
If you're a new grad, however, expect to be out of work for a bit.
Heck, those 3 aren't even the only big tech companies in Seattle, there's Apple, Facebook, Oracle, Twitter, etc. etc. let alone all the other smaller ones. There's more tech companies here than you can shake a stick at.
Facebook - Menlo Park
Oracle - Redwood Shores
Twitter - San francisco
Having an office with paint that says 'Twitter' doesn't mean 'Twitter' is in Seattle. Satellite offices are rarely taken seriously.