Recent content by TraitorChris

As someone who has paid taxes in both DC and CA, I can tell you all-in income tax is lower in CA. Also remember that NY state tax you quote doesn't include Manhattan city tax...so that 6.85% is a very lowball number. I am talking "what nets to me after I have paid everybody" tax. Not the...

Agreed. "CA has high taxes" compared with where? Missouri and Arkansas maybe. But not NYC or Washington DC. Compare apples-to-apples not apples-to-grape nuts!

You ultra-conservative finance types kill me. Warning of the "creeping socialism" in the US, when the tax rate of the wealthy has declined by two-thirds in the past 40 years. How much lower to you want it to go??? The claim is always that "lower taxes" spurs economic growth for all. But...