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Originally posted by Oerdin
I ain't looking them up but logic says all those property taxes, sales taxes, and local fees (effectively taxes for government services) add up to a pretty penny. Nobody denies that they "add up," but you were suggesting that state & local tax burdens were so regressive as to make the total tax burden even significantly less progressive than the federal tax scale. That's what we were calling bull**** on, and you conveniently cop out now.

After all, I'm guessing the well-off own more realty, buy more non-exempt goods, and engage in more activities entailing fees than the poor do...