What if the entire Sun Belt migration is based on bad math? People chase states with 'no income tax' while paying more in total through sales tax, car dependency, health costs & shorter lives. The tax wasn't eliminated, it was privatized & made invisible. Are we all just marks?
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The Country That Doesn't Know Its Own Tax Rate
I've had the same conversation a dozen or more times. Someone mentions they're thinking about moving south, or they just did, and sooner or later the pitch arrives: no income tax, lower cost of living, you keep more of what you earn. It comes out like a confession of common



