5 highest, 5 lowest states for taxes

hey...what brain dead idiot wrote this article. CROOK county illinois is # 1 in the nation for sales,income  and property taxes as well as the highest fuel prices.our income taxes were raised 66% last year and this state is worse off than the year before.we also cater to illegals with our sanctuary status for them in crook county.public sector jobs just keep rolling along at huge salaries and golden benefits and pensions while the citizens starve.if any public sector union employee with his or her imrf pension had to work a real private sector job... you'd need a rowboat and paddles to get through their tears.public sector union employees just don't know how good they got it.cut their goodies so us real working folks can survive.

Martha Fair left out that republicans take care of our seniors. The other guys and dolls give it all to welfare people who expect their children to collect it too.  Feed my babies while the person who lives with me steals from the working neighbors and cries poor me. Expecting a great life without working for it but working the government system pays better under bleeding heart democrats.  The republicans expect people to work for a living and not lay on their back side with their mouth open and a hand out. The rich and poor get the money from democrats and the rich & seniors get the money from republicans. The middle class has harpoons in them from both parties and the shaft.

Martha Fair, bias is clouding your clarity of thinking. We need to get to the point to think as Americans,not Dems or Reps. This incessent desire to just take from the successful and give it to the less successful has been tried before. Has it worked? 

Oh yeah...look up the states with the lowest taxes.  All are the bottom feeders on the economic ladder per median income with the lowest 10, Republican controlled and have been for years.  They also managed to break all the unions and convert the poorest into "right to work" states..  The people who live in these states must be constantly subsidized by the richer Northern states in order to make it possible for Republicans to keep wages so low.  Believe me, the only people this law benefits is the Republicans themselves.  These same states are the highest recipients of food stamps and entitlements, because they don't pay their working poor enough to survive. Republicans are the parasites of the nation because every other state in the nation must help the people they put into poverty.  Republicans have a legacy of creating poverty whenever they are in power.  BTW, Look up this data on the census bureau page if you have any doubts.

The tax rate by itself does not tell the full story...  for instance some States do not tax social security or retirement income  which makes a big diffrence if one is in that category

Now compare the education rankings and check the annual list of Best Places to live and you'll find that the tax rate is only one part of the equation. Like my daddy used to say, you get what you pay for.

I lived in CT and we paid $5,000 property tax per year, which is much high than the list; and the property tax went up almost every year.

Seems like a good indication of "you get what you pay for".  For those not wanting to pay taxes Mississippi welcomes you and reflects your values regarding education, infrastructure, healthcare availability, 1st responders response and environmental safety. 

 

I grew up in Maryland and lived there for many years.  But I was one of the many who have voted with their "feet" and moved.  I feel sorry for the state, it of course has a soft spot in my heart, but with the income tax, the piggyback tax (what you paid for MD income tax, you had to pay another 50% for the county tax), the high insurance rates, property tax, etc., it was time to move.  I do believe that all states will get you one way or another, but our move to NC was a financial win for us.  No state tax on our retirement - my husband is retired military and that isn't taxed, and mine gets a 2K deduction and is so small that it's not taxed (that saved us 150.00 mo.), house insurance is half, car insurance cut by a third.  We do have a higher sales tax than MD, and we have to pay an excise tax on our cars.  And we are both golfers and what we save in not paying state tax pays for our club dues - AND we can have our own golf cart, so that was a giant savings over our course in MD.  It's not for everybody, a lot of research needs to be done to find which state will benefit you the most in your particular situation.

And where is Texas for the lowest? 0% income tax! Whoever put this list together is retarded.