I don’t buy this, man. Groceries aren’t taxxed, and I just don’t see how a lower income individual could physically buy the same amount of taxed goods as a multimillionaire
As a proportion of their income maybe, but X% sale tax of one rich dude’s glamour item(s) - expensive cars, boats jewelry, fashion, etc) could exceed the taxes from many many lower-income essentials.
Yes that’s right. This graph is shate and local tax as a proportion of income, which is a much more relevant statistic than absolute dollars when concerned with the impact on the individual’s quality of life. There might be other reasons to look at absolute dollars, and percentage of income doesn’t tell the whole story when it comes to quality of life, but one is certainly more descriptive than the other for that concern.
The states that rely on sales taxes for most of their income are the most likely to tax the poor the most, since the poor spend more of their income.
I don’t buy this, man. Groceries aren’t taxxed, and I just don’t see how a lower income individual could physically buy the same amount of taxed goods as a multimillionaire
As a proportion of their income maybe, but X% sale tax of one rich dude’s glamour item(s) - expensive cars, boats jewelry, fashion, etc) could exceed the taxes from many many lower-income essentials.
Yes that’s right. This graph is shate and local tax as a proportion of income, which is a much more relevant statistic than absolute dollars when concerned with the impact on the individual’s quality of life. There might be other reasons to look at absolute dollars, and percentage of income doesn’t tell the whole story when it comes to quality of life, but one is certainly more descriptive than the other for that concern.