Have you seen this map by Visual Capitalist

@VisualCap Paying 25.5% taxes is something to be celebrated ??

@VisualCap it really seems like nothing will ever change here. The corruption is so deep. I love my home but I hate the people who govern it.

@VisualCap Think it needs to be reposted! So I have!

@VisualCap Just checked New Jersey state financial statements published publicly online and they’ve been in billions of dollars in debt for 20 years straight…. … must have cheap labor then…. Checks…. Average labor rate is $60 to $80 an hour 🤦

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@VisualCap What’s crazy…Massachusetts doesn’t have an income tax, right? Or am I wrong?

@VisualCap Minnesota is quite insane too

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@VisualCap Treason

@VisualCap The permanent modern federal income tax system was established in 1913 following the ratification of the 16th Amendment. Before 1913, the federal government was funded primarily through tariffs and excise taxes.

🎯 That's exactly how it works. They take more, undermining the economic cycle, and so they are most 'fiscaIIy distressed'. ...and in this time of mid-cIass financiaI distress, it's even more devastating. ...which makes you hopefully ask WHY is this the choice? This is all well known at this point, but still this is the choice.