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Originally Posted by fergyflyer
Move to Florida.
I have a 200,000...... ah no wait a 175,0000....... ah better say 160.... 155,000 dollar house and my taxes are, this will shock you folks in the northeast, .......... 1650 per year. No Wing Nut that isn't per month.
We have a sales tax between 6 and 7 percent, varies by county, and there isn't any income tax. No county income tax, no local income tax and no state income tax.
Our roads are pretty close to perfect. We have decent schools. The job market is good because we are tax friendly to businesses too.
There is one downside, we still can't figure out how to run an election and the rest of the country hates us for that.
Pennsylvania, Uncle Eddies tax farm.
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OK, time to take off those ruby red grapefruit glasses you Rendell refugee .
Can you name this congressman from your newfound home state?
Hint.....where the boys are.
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From the St petersburg Times............
Schools
Schools still rank near the bottom
Despite six years of major changes, Florida's schools lag behind other states' in many areas - including spending. By RON MATUS
Published March 6, 2005
On teacher pay, we trail Georgia.
On graduation rates, Alabama is better.
On eighth-grade reading scores, South Carolina just moved ahead.
Despite six years of major changes by Gov. Jeb Bush and a Republican-dominated Legislature, Florida still ranks with its Southern neighbors near the bottom of the education rankings.
Five of the 10 states with the highest fourth-grade reading scores also rank in the Top 10 in per-pupil spending: New Jersey, Vermont, Connecticut, Delaware and Maine. All but two are in the top 25 for spending, with the exceptions being New Hampshire (No. 29) and Colorado (No. 40). None are in the South.
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I'm afraid your orange groves are no cleaner than our northern city streets.
And, as for that $1,650 annual tax bill.....say your mil rate is indeed based on a $200K valuation. Multiply by 5 and you'd have about the average home value in Fairfield County CT at $1,000,000. Your Florida taxes would be $8,250 @ 5X. Thats roughly half what you could expect here. There's a lot of variation from town to town though. So, you are paying significantly less to live with gators and skeeters.
I'll wager a state populated by steady stream of blue haired retirees from the northland has vetoed every tax increase in the sunshine state since 1960. An aged population living on fixed income couldn't give a crap about schools or people with kids. They just want to hang onto their social security check. And jobs? Tourist heaven? Florida is heavily skewed towards a service economy and the concurrent low wage jobs those businesses generate. Hence the low tax revenue. C'mon, you're usually a little more balanced than this.
