Sales Taxes, taxes, and more taxes

[gh1950]

I didn't say you quit paying other taxes lol. What I was trying to convey people north of us, pay more in VAT/sales tax, but you get "Free" health cares. So apples/oranges.

Bama is like 48th-50th cheapest in property taxes.

GA is just high on property and income.

The biggest difference is that the tax base changes, depending on where you are in the supply chain. The percentage tax looks high, but the basis to which it is applied is lower (in most cases).

 

[StuP]

I didn't say you quit paying other taxes lol. What I was trying to convey people north of us, pay more in VAT/sales tax, but you get "Free" health cares. So apples/oranges.

Bama is like 48th-50th cheapest in property taxes.

GA is just high on property and income.

Gotcha knee jerk reaction to seeing VAT & UK VAT there's just a separate revenue stream for the government nothing else included.

 

[TheGman]

Here's something you can throw out at your next cocktail party that will make you sound smart.

It's a fact that the "social justice warriors" who dominate our local government conveniently overlook.

Sale tax is the most "regressive" of the local taxes, which is geek for the fact that a tax impacts low income people more than higher income people.

In our county (Clarke) the poverty rate is around 40%. So every time the sales tax goes up 1%, it takes a larger percentage of the low income folks income than the higher income folks.

Being as sales tax in particular applies to necessities, there is no practical way low income people to avoid the impact of the higher taxes. They can't avoid purchasing groceries like higher income people can with discretionary purchases.

I bring this up to our county commissioners every chance I get, but talk about getting some serious down home double talk. (We have one commissioner who lost the last election to a dead man, if that tells you about the quality of our commissioners.)

I would say good it’s about damn time the low income folks pay SOME taxes , but that would be mean spirited .

in some sense I do feel that way however your point is well taken it’s punitive. Boortz and Linder came up with The Fair Tax idea years ago, it was DOA

 

[GFB]

Slight tangent

A former commissioner in Augusta just got convicted for some crimes involving use of SPLOST funds he was somehow in charge of as head of a HOA. Of $150k he allegedly deposited over $130k into his personal account to make purchases using his personal credit cards. Did not retain receipts and deleted emails when he came under investigation. Retired SGM.

 

[gh1950]

I would say good it’s about damn time the low income folks pay SOME taxes , but that would be mean spirited .

in some sense I do feel that way however your point is well taken it’s punitive. Boortz and Linder came up with The Fair Tax idea years ago, it was DOA

The issue is, as far as I'm concerned, there is no exemption for groceries like a lot of states have.

But it's just funny seeing the social justice warriors pile on taxes on the lowest income folks.

The one that I have is the tax on a cocktail or draft beer, There the state and federal alcohol tax, which is hidden, then a local pouring tax, then sales tax on the total. You end up paying a tax on a tax which in theory is illegal for anything but alcohol,

 

[THREEJAYS]

Well I am in douglas co still ( south end thank the good Lord) and house, separate garage pretty big shop and 32 acres is just under 1000 a year. I have land in conservation and you loose school tax at 62. My house is 41 years old but I can’t complain. One of the only places I know of dropping school tax at that age.