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Taxes for States in Trouble?

…tax burdens, including income, property and sales taxes, and you’ll see that Detroit has very high tax burdens–because of the flight of its industrial base and the white flight to…

…upper brackets. Corporate taxes currently generate about 20% of the government’s operating revenue, so the requisite increases in income taxes would be non-trivial. Very small business owners, who by definition…

…surely pays income taxes. Moreover, rampant deficit spending lead to the raiding of the Social Security “lockbox”, so payroll taxes and income taxes are essentially fungible (they basically are, anyway)….

…after the tax is imposed than before. Most states have sales taxes around 8%. To replace all income taxes with consumption taxes would require a federal consumption tax of at…