Where Each U.S. State Gets Its Tax Revenue From

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Comment by delichon 10 minutes ago

Alaska gets a huge portion of its revenue from taxes on extracting oil and gas. This is a model that any state could use on data centers extracting compute from local resources. And if demand for compute is actually heading up the Kardashev scale, it could eventually fund the whole state and subsidize resident incomes. It would act as a hedge against possible disruptions of AI.

Comment by estearum 2 minutes ago

Land Value Tax does this with effectively zero enforcement complexity and across all forms of communal wealth creation (which ultimately gets baked into land values).

Comment by kevin_thibedeau 1 hour ago

They need to show distribution of federal funds because it is not fairly allocated.

Comment by gwerbin 15 minutes ago

This is about tax revenue, not overall stock of usable funds.

Comment by kevin_thibedeau 4 minutes ago

It's about the proportional distribution.

Comment by y-c-o-m-b 6 minutes ago

11% corporate income tax in Idaho surprised me, given how heavily conservative they tend to vote.

Comment by hbarka 47 minutes ago

Interesting as a percentage but convert the axis to actual dollars for the real story.

Comment by abeppu 42 minutes ago

But that would just show you some states are much bigger than others? I think per capita dollars, or normalized to that state's median income would be more informative.

Comment by boguscoder 12 minutes ago

Clicking “use this visualization” gives you image version that doesn’t cause seizures

Comment by beembeem 1 hour ago

A few observations (these are all on a relative basis, as the chart shows):

- NH gets nearly 2/3 of its revenue from property taxes

- OR raises more of its revenue than CA in income tax

- TN/AZ are a close 2nd/3rd to WA in sales tax revenue

Comment by y-c-o-m-b 20 seconds ago

Oregon, where we get taxed to hell on both income and property yet still have decrepit infrastructure, declining publicly funded healthcare(OHA), and poor education.

Comment by PyWoody 46 minutes ago

  - NH gets nearly 2/3 of its revenue from property taxes

No sales or income tax will get you that. I sold my house and went back to renting because my town doubled my already ludicrously high property taxes.

Comment by apercu 15 minutes ago

Won't you still be (indirectly) paying property tax, as your landlord needs to recoup?

Comment by throwup238 12 minutes ago

Yes but you can get below market rents from owners who don’t have a mortgage to pay.

Comment by jolt42 1 minute ago

The WA sales tax I suppose explains why a fast food burger requires a down payment.

Comment by somat 52 minutes ago

I suspect "other" is mining or equivalent natural exploitation(oil)

And pet peeve, personal income tax and corporate income tax are almost the same thing. With few exceptions the individual person does not pay their income tax, the corporation does, and for those exceptions the individual is the corporation. Income tax is really a sales tax on a corporation biggest expense, it's payroll.

Comment by yuliyp 36 minutes ago

Corporate income tax is a very different thing from an employer withholding wages. Withholding is still considered the individual paying the tax, just they never get to hold the money. Corporate income tax is money the corporation pays based on its own income vs expenses.

Comment by throwup238 14 minutes ago

You can also just go to your employer’s HR software and change withholding to 0% everywhere I’ve worked, giving you a bigger paycheck but moving the burden of paying the IRS on you.

Comment by what 5 minutes ago

You still need to do the withholding or pay a penalty at tax time. I suppose you can pay quarterly instead of biweekly (or whatever), but is it worth it?

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Comment by logankeenan 44 minutes ago

A good portion of revenue is from property taxes. A property tax is a wealth tax. I always find the discussion interesting around wealth taxes on billionaires equity when the average worker has typically always paid a wealth tax on their largest asset.

Comment by didgetmaster 21 minutes ago

Property taxes are not wealth taxes. Two houses side-by-side with the same value, should have the same property tax assessed. One is owned outright. The other is mortgaged to the hilt and its 'owner' has very little wealth from it.

Comment by jayd16 10 minutes ago

I wonder if we should pass a law where borrowing against an asset is a taxable event.

At least it closes the loop hole where you borrow against your stock and never pay taxes on it because you never sold it.

Comment by mrkiouak 36 minutes ago

A property tax is not a wealth tax, in any common meaning of 'wealth tax'. It's a property tax. The majority of people with real wealth own assets outside of property that they derive income from. Notably, the vast majority of people own property they do not derive income from, e.g. their homes.j

A tax on a home not deriving income does not fit any normal person's definition of a wealth tax.

Comment by tekla 33 minutes ago

What? Property taxes are definitionally a wealth tax. It's also probably the most efficient/best one. It's also part of the common meaning of the wealth tax because its the one that most people experience.

https://projectionlab.com/financial-terms/wealth-tax

Comment by Sparkle-san 12 minutes ago

The tax is the same regardless of the equity or "wealth". I can be underwater on my mortgage with a negative net-worth and still owe the same property taxes on someone with a comparable house and $2 million in the bank.

Comment by devmor 1 hour ago

I wonder if Delaware's massively oversized license tax portion is simply because so many companies incorporate there.

Comment by estearum 59 seconds ago

Yes

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