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Re:Bill Gates calls for income tax in Washington state by lonelappde on Sunday January 05, 2020 @02:58PM (#21963609)
WA has high sales tax. Poor people pay a larger portion of taxes in WA compared to elsewhere.
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Re:Bill Gates calls for income tax in Washington state by dfsdfklgjljg on Sunday January 05, 2020 @03:56PM (#21964020)
CA has income tax and the sales tax is just as high.
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Re:Bill Gates calls for income tax in Washington state by utopian3 on Sunday January 05, 2020 @04:02PM (#21964064)
> CA has income tax and the sales tax is just as high.

CA also has a property tax and capital gains tax.

Oh yes, and a business income tax, and a franchise tax... honestly curious if there is a tax that California doesn't have...

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Re:Bill Gates calls for income tax in Washington state by blaser-waffle on Monday January 06, 2020 @02:52PM (#21972526)
And yet somehow people keep moving there, and the NIMBY crowd keeps doing its best to keep folks out.
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