https://chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texans-pay-more-tax…
Texans actually pay more in taxes than Californians do, unless those Texans are in the top one percent of all earners.
According to ITEP, Texans whose salaries fall into the lowest 20 percent of income earners (making less than $20,900 annually) pay about 13 percent of their income in state and local taxes.
Meanwhile, Californians in the bottom 20 percent (making less than $23,200 annually) pay 10.5 percent.
In Texas, the middle 20 percent of income earners ($35,800-$56,000) pay 9.7 percent in state and local taxes in contrast to middle income Californians ($39,100-$62,300), who only pay 8.9 percent.
Most glaringly, the top 1 percent of earners in Texas ($617,900 or more) pay 3.1 percent of their income in contrast to top earnings in California ($714,400 or more) who pay 12.4 percent.
@TheRightPearRepublican5mos5MO
Living in Texas is cheaper than California by almost every metric. Doesn't matter what income level you are at.
@E1ectionLouieGreen5mos5MO
Show them then, because based on taxes
That isn’t true. If you mean house prices then sure.
@TheRightPearRepublican5mos5MO
Yes based on taxes.
California's sales tax ranges from 1-4% more than Texas, depending on the city. In the most populated area, the LA metro, the sales tax alone is almost 10%.
Add in property taxes, taxes on fuel, taxes on goods, etc, and the tax rate goes far beyond the 10% the graphic claims.
Hell, the "data" the article claims the graphic is about is closer to a decade old than it is today.
You will live a much less expensive life in Texas vs California, and it's not even close.
@CicadaSamanthaLibertarian5mos5MO
No one ever mentions home prices! CA has 1,100 sq foot shacks for $800k while you can get 3,000 square foot homes for 500k in Houston. Funny how these real estate experts show us %s, but leave our actual cost of homes.
@ZestfulD3legateSocialist5mos5MO
This is correct. Property taxes in Texas are high and are reassessed with (rising) market value.
CA has Proposition 13 which limits property tax increases to purchase price plus adjustments.
@OpulentThrusheDemocrat5mos5MO
Yep. Grew up in TX. My dads property taxes are almost as much as ours and he gets a break for being a senior and his house is worth a fraction of ours
But property values are influenced by property tax. So part of the reason his house is worth a fraction is because the property tax is so high.
@OpulentThrusheDemocrat5mos5MO
This doesn’t check out as correlated as housing prices in CA with respect to resale are not impacted by the Sellers low Prop 13 basis and the new Buyers massive increase. You can go look at plenty of neighborhoods in CA where 1 owner pays $1k per year in property taxes and their neighbors comparably sized home pays 50k
@EnragedCurGreen5mos5MO
A $400k home in Austin would cost $1.2M in the Bay Area. If you purchased today you would pay ~$8k per year in property tax in Austin and about $9k in the Bay. If you bought 10 years ago it would be something like $8k vs $4k. YMMV, in my experience moving to CA from TX = pain
@MereTortoiseDemocrat5mos5MO
When someone tells me that they are moving to Texas because it’s cheap, I laugh in their face.
@Sw1ngStateBenDemocrat5mos5MO
Definitely not cheap for those below the median family income demographic.
@KindIndependenceRepublican5mos5MO
This is entirely false. The rich In California pay lower taxes due to Prop 13 but these analyses just assume a blended rate for everyone on property taxes. When in actuality only the rich own the property with the ridiculously low tax rates.
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