Californians might wonder how other states can “afford” to charge their residents little to no income tax.
Let’s politely say “small government” sometimes gets a lot of help from the biggest government – Uncle Sam.
Income-tax burdens on residents vary widely by state. The federal government’s financial input into local economies also fluctuates across the nation.
My trusty spreadsheet, looking at rankings of state-by-state tax burdens and federal-dollar dependency from WalletHub and SmartAsset, found that low-tax states often get more generous financial inflows from the U.S. government than higher-tax states.
Taxing matters
Let’s note that taxpayers in the 17 states with the lowest individual income-tax burdens pay only an
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