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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
How do these places with no income tax exist?
Texas, Florida, etc. don’t seem to be collapsing yet no one pays state income tax?
And here we are paying out the ass for every single thing, and all our infastructure isn’t great, transit is garbage, services like garbage, recycling etc. are all completely incompetent.
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Income tax is just one source of revenue - they get it from other sources like sales or property taxes. That said, Texas and Florida (and many southern states) have lower total tax rates than northern and west coast states but they also have much worse outcomes for its citizens - higher poverty, higher infant mortality, shorter life expectancy. Income distribution is also worse - if you're rich it's great, if you're poor you can go ahead and die please.
The American south fucking sucks - it's like a 3rd world country in some spots (Hello New Orleans). Sure, you pay less taxes but what a shit hole of a place to live.