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Old Apr 13, 2015 | 9:03 pm
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Originally Posted by MissJ
As for being progressive, yes, the city is, but look at the rest of Texas.
"the blueberry in the raspberry patch" is how my friends in Austin describe it.

Originally Posted by pduck01
So the deal is that my kids are in NYC public schools and if we relocated to a lower tax state we could put them in private schools with the savings and likely have a better quality of life. I'm thinking <5% state tax rate. Thanks for your insights and patience. I'm sure folks love where they live and want to offer their insights but that's the math underpinning this...
There are very few states where you can expect to pay <5% on the kind of income I'm assuming you have ($250k+).

Have you looked at state tax rates?
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