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WTOP radio sue helps substanciate arlington's claim "they have no money"
Posted by:
mc facist
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Date: April 13, 2015 03:53PM
Arlington Ranks High for Tax Burden — Arlington County has the second highest overall tax burden in the nation, according to stats compiled by the website NerdWallet. Arlington’s high median income and high real estate costs factored heavily in the calculation, which includes federal, state and local taxes.
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the same article claims CA has highest pay - followed by Arlington
we all know fed workers AVERAGE $100,000 (which is insane)
we all know at that pay level one pays higher taxes
THEN - keep in mind NYC pays %50 income tax
THEN keep in mind - article was written by foreigners complaining their fed pay wasn't enough for them. same one who said america's the devil, then came here for communists jobs that paid THREE TIMES what american's were getting when they were called "the devil" for doing it
i hate fucking foreigners
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the same article claims CA has highest pay - followed by Arlington
we all know fed workers AVERAGE $100,000 (which is insane)
we all know at that pay level one pays higher taxes
THEN - keep in mind NYC pays %50 income tax
THEN keep in mind - article was written by foreigners complaining their fed pay wasn't enough for them. same one who said america's the devil, then came here for communists jobs that paid THREE TIMES what american's were getting when they were called "the devil" for doing it
i hate fucking foreigners
Re: WTOP radio sue helps substanciate arlington's claim "they have no money"
Posted by:
MC Grammar Police
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Date: April 13, 2015 03:58PM
substantiate - less radio and more readin' and spellin' for you.
Re: WTOP radio sue helps substanciate arlington's claim "they have no money"
Posted by:
Dr. Memory
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Date: April 13, 2015 05:34PM
Facist?
Re: WTOP radio sue helps substanciate arlington's claim "they have no money"
Posted by:
former Arlingtonian
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Date: April 14, 2015 12:43PM
Simple bad use of math with the tax burden study.
The rankings are raw numbers - taxes paid. The true measure of tax burden should be percent of income. Those numbers are included in the NerdWallet data, and they show that Arlington does not have the second-highest tax burden when measured properly.
Using raw data is like saying a guy with a million-dollar home has a much higher property tax than a guy with a $50,000 shack. True, but not illuminating. The guy in the shack may pay a lot more as a percentage of his income, or home value. This is the same old rate vs. total tax bill problem.
Arlington has more than its fair share of well educated, well paid, 20-somethings who are single and don't own a home and pay a mortgage. This skewing puts a higher percentage of Arlington's population paying higher taxes because they can't use the mortgage deduction.
The rankings are raw numbers - taxes paid. The true measure of tax burden should be percent of income. Those numbers are included in the NerdWallet data, and they show that Arlington does not have the second-highest tax burden when measured properly.
Using raw data is like saying a guy with a million-dollar home has a much higher property tax than a guy with a $50,000 shack. True, but not illuminating. The guy in the shack may pay a lot more as a percentage of his income, or home value. This is the same old rate vs. total tax bill problem.
Arlington has more than its fair share of well educated, well paid, 20-somethings who are single and don't own a home and pay a mortgage. This skewing puts a higher percentage of Arlington's population paying higher taxes because they can't use the mortgage deduction.