It's not 17K more for NY, you did the math wrong.
You're right that I misread your post, but those are also different numbers than you posted above. By your first post it would be 21k in taxes and 49k in New York, not 47k.
Wait, didn't you already say that the benefits of the taxes paid can't be taken into account? You didn't want to add any context at all to your initial #'s, but now you want to add cost of living into the equation? So now you wish to compare states with all of the costs included but none of the benefits - factor in cost of living but completely ignore better education, better health care, better infrastructure? There's a reason why Arkansas is at the bottom of quality of life rankings: "The Natural State placed #45 in the overall rankings. It was dragged down by its bad scores in Health Care, Crime & Corrections, Infrastructure, Education, Opportunity and Economy."
Not a win for NY is an understatement, that is a massive L...
You're right that I misread your post, but those are also different numbers than you posted above. By your first post it would be 21k in taxes and 49k in New York, not 47k.
Wait, didn't you already say that the benefits of the taxes paid can't be taken into account? You didn't want to add any context at all to your initial #'s, but now you want to add cost of living into the equation? So now you wish to compare states with all of the costs included but none of the benefits - factor in cost of living but completely ignore better education, better health care, better infrastructure? There's a reason why Arkansas is at the bottom of quality of life rankings: "The Natural State placed #45 in the overall rankings. It was dragged down by its bad scores in Health Care, Crime & Corrections, Infrastructure, Education, Opportunity and Economy."
In fact, the bottom 10 quality of life states are Kentucky, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alaska, Alabama, West Virginia, New Mexico, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Hmmm....what do those states have in common? But suddenly you want to take cost of living into account, but don't want to include quality of life or government services into account.
Second, doesn't cost of living already take tax burden into account? It's unclear from your link, there's no information there on how those numbers are calculated or even whether "cost of living index" is a straight % like you assumed it to be or something else. So taking the tax burden and cost-of-living separately, you're probably double-counting.
And how does that "index" actually affect the median taxpayer or is it just distorted by the wealthy? I just compared the cost of living of two similar-sized cities in the two states (Buffalo and Little Rock), and this calculator claims that outside of taxes, Buffalo is actually cheaper to live in than Little Rock. That suggests to me that the cost of living index you posted is distorted by the super high cost of living in New York, with a huge population of higher-income people, and may not hold across the rest of the state.
Of course, these are the sorts of factors you have to look at when making real comparisons across states and not just posting contextless shyt from propaganda mills.
You're right that I misread your post, but those are also different numbers than you posted above. By your first post it would be 21k in taxes and 49k in New York, not 47k.
Wait, didn't you already say that the benefits of the taxes paid can't be taken into account? You didn't want to add any context at all to your initial #'s, but now you want to add cost of living into the equation? So now you wish to compare states with all of the costs included but none of the benefits - factor in cost of living but completely ignore better education, better health care, better infrastructure? There's a reason why Arkansas is at the bottom of quality of life rankings: "The Natural State placed #45 in the overall rankings. It was dragged down by its bad scores in Health Care, Crime & Corrections, Infrastructure, Education, Opportunity and Economy."
In fact, the bottom 10 quality of life states are Kentucky, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alaska, Alabama, West Virginia, New Mexico, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Hmmm....what do those states have in common? But suddenly you want to take cost of living into account, but don't want to include quality of life or government services into account.
Second, doesn't cost of living already take tax burden into account? It's unclear from your link, there's no information there on how those numbers are calculated or even whether "cost of living index" is a straight % like you assumed it to be or something else. So taking the tax burden and cost-of-living separately, you're probably double-counting.
And how does that "index" actually affect the median taxpayer or is it just distorted by the wealthy? I just compared the cost of living of two similar-sized cities in the two states (Buffalo and Little Rock), and this calculator claims that outside of taxes, Buffalo is actually cheaper to live in than Little Rock. That suggests to me that the cost of living index you posted is distorted by the super high cost of living in New York, with a huge population of higher-income people, and may not hold across the rest of the state.
Of course, these are the sorts of factors you have to look at when making real comparisons across states and not just posting contextless shyt from propaganda mills.
I'm fairly sure all cities have federal, state, and local taxes. Deductions are also a part of working in general.This is most definitely true. I used to work as an analyst in HR. NY had federal, state and local taxesand they had other ‘tax’ demands which they took off employee checks as deductions.
The best is the living within in the 5 boroughs tax...This is most definitely true. I used to work as an analyst in HR. NY had federal, state and local taxes
