The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisis Worse

Re:The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisi... by burlesona on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @10:47PM (#26815677)

In almost every part of the US and almost every situation, the taxes you pay are based on the place you live, not where you work. For most cities, commuters who drive into the city just to work and then drive out are a terrible liability, because they wear out the roads driving in and out every day, then pay their property taxes (which is typically the large majority of local revenue) to a different city.

I believe NYC may be a partial exception to this as I know it has local income tax (which is very rare), but I'm not sure if they charge that to people who don't also live in the city.

Other exceptions are some towns that have almost no residential and a lot of commercial, and collect almost all their income from sales tax.

But, again, those are the few exceptions, not the norm.

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Re:The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisi... by zizee on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @11:08PM (#26815817)

> commuters who drive into the city just to work and then drive out are a terrible liability, because they wear out the roads driving in and out every day

Heavy trucks actually do the majority of damage to road infrastructure.

From the linked article: The registration fee seems steep. However,a B-Double can cause, per kilometre travelled, 20,000 times the road wear and tear that a family car does

https://theconversation.com/trucks-are-destroying-our-roads-...

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Re:The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisi... by slt2021 on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @10:58PM (#26815744)

1. aren't highway/interstate maintenance (which are used by commuters) funded at a federal and state level? so there should be much difference.

2. property taxes go to fund schools/utilities/services - and it makes sense to send taxes to where you live, not work. I want to fund schools where my kids go to, this seems perfectly logical to me. It would be a huge waste of resources to do otherwise.

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Re:The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisi... by mattbuilds on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @10:53PM (#26815720)

As a former NYC resident who now lives in it’s burbs, you only pay the city tax when living in the five boroughs.

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Re:The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisi... by bluedino on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @10:52PM (#26815711)

Plenty of cities collect income tax from workers who do not reside in the city. Our is half the amount collected from city residents.

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Re:The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisi... by dragonwriter on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @10:56PM (#26815734)

> In almost every part of the US and almost every situation, the taxes you pay are based on the place you live, not where you work.

Income tax is typically based on both where you live and where you work. Property tax is based on where you own property. Payroll taxes (state unemployment, etc.) is mostly based on where you work. Sales/use tax is based on where you physically shop or where you live for other shopping.

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Re:The American Jobs Plan Will Make Our Infrastructure Crisi... by RhysU on Thursday April 15, 2021 @08:08AM (#26819421)

If you live in NYC you pay their resident surtax no matter where you work.

If you live in NY and work in NYC you pay NY state taxes.

If you live in NJ and work in NYC you pay NY state taxes. I believe Connecticut works the same way.

NY state taxation helps out NYC.

NYC has a broad, implicit tax base well beyond the city borders in addition to their tax base inside them.

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