Tax Foundation on State-Local Tax Revenue Sources

[bluefootedpig]

He nailed it when he said it depends on the state. If a place like hawaii wants to increase their rev, they have tourism, thus a sales tax would make sense. They could do with very little property taxes. Meanwhile, a farming state with no tourism but lots of land might do better with a property tax.

I think the key here though which he kind of mentioned was to create a baseline, and then give tax breaks / reduce taxes for years that you did well in other areas.

[MegF142857]

Fox sure kept hammering on what is the best tax mix to prop up state spending. We'll keep asking you how to best tax the population, so we'll ask it 3 different ways.

Fox must think folks are idiots. "For the layman"... duh... gee... I think he said it that clearly himself. Lady has a great idea... how about dumping on a completely NEW tax, like a VAT? So... asking a 4th way... if we did that, then would that work to support the spending?