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NY has had high property taxes forever. As far as a welfare state, that's been forever, too. They did reform the system ? a while back to help a bit.
Property taxes high, but you don't pay high water bills (as many sunbelt states do), high yearly car registrations (as Florida, NC and ? other states do) and other things. Dining out is inexpensive in many NY cities (upstate). Painters and home repairman are not as high as some states I've lived in either. It's a wash. I think every state gets you, just in different ways.
NC? It costs me $36/year to renew my registration in NC. In IL, I paid $101/year.
I'll be right behind ya Finper......another middle class business owner cashing out and heading to AZ....
See ya there!
We’ve got our own problems here in Arizona. I love it here, but this ain’t utopia by a long shot.
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NY has had high property taxes forever. As far as a welfare state, that's been forever, too. They did reform the system ? a while back to help a bit.
Property taxes high, but you don't pay high water bills (as many sunbelt states do), high yearly car registrations (as Florida, NC and ? other states do) and other things. Dining out is inexpensive in many NY cities (upstate). Painters and home repairman are not as high as some states I've lived in either. It's a wash. I think every state gets you, just in different ways.
Exactly. You’re not gonna get off cheap anywhere you go. One states takes this but gives you that, the other takes that but gives you this. Ultimately, you gotta pay your freight no matter where you go.
Gov. Cuomo faces a growing budget mess as officials projected a shocking $6.1 billion hole in the state’s finances next year.
The figure was provided by the state Division of Budget in its mid-year budget report, which was released weeks after its legally mandated due date.
That tallies up to roughly 6 percent of the state’s $102 billion budget for its agencies and operations.
More than half of the gap — $4 billion — is linked to a dramatic rise in the state’s Medicaid costs.
The state of NY pretty much has collapsed already. Outside of NYC, businesses have left in droves, forced out by obscene taxes and regulations. People can't afford to live in the state with the highest taxes in the nation, unless they are part of the small percent that works in the metro area in law or finance with outsized salaries. The rest of the state that has to survive by actually producing things can't afford the burden of Albany. Upstate cities are a mass of abandoned warehouses, boarded up main streets and far too often abandoned houses. I left 25 years ago...and was one of the last of the top students from my graduating class to leave.
NY has had high property taxes forever. As far as a welfare state, that's been forever, too. They did reform the system ? a while back to help a bit.
Property taxes high, but you don't pay high water bills (as many sunbelt states do), high yearly car registrations (as Florida, NC and ? other states do) and other things. Dining out is inexpensive in many NY cities (upstate). Painters and home repairman are not as high as some states I've lived in either. It's a wash. I think every state gets you, just in different ways.
Yep. Take Texas for example. They don't have an state income tax, but in many places their property tax rates are high. And because it's a lot hotter in the summertime than where I live (the SF Bay Area) - my utility bills are going to be pretty high. My property tax in CA is capped by Prop 13 so the rate I'm paying is fairly low considering the value of the property.
It can be less costly to live, say, in Dallas or Houston compared with San Jose but it won't be as cheap as you think - depending on the situation.
They owe HUGE unfunded liabilities in the form of public employee pensions plus benefits, and they can't print money.
And I agree with the other poster that Illinois will be the first to fail. Each Chicago household owes $126,000 in taxes for unfunded public employee pensions plus benefits.
The US national debt is at about 70k per capita. And the total is growing at a 1 trillion + rate due to the irresponsible "tax cuts". That's happening in a "good economy". Questions?
The US national debt is at about 70k per capita. And the total is growing at a 1 trillion + rate due to the irresponsible "tax cuts". That's happening in a "good economy". Questions?
First they just did.
Second, Yep, cut the 1 trillion + military expense immediately.
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