California Has the Highest State Income Tax in the Nation, Texas Has NO State Income Tax

California has the highest state income tax, with a rate of up to 13.3%. California has graduated-rate income taxes that range from 1% to a 13.3% tax rate on income of more than $1 million. Middle-class Californians pay an income tax rate in the range of 6% to 9.3%

Texas is a shit hole with poor schools and high crime.  Texas property taxes are the 6th highest in the nation and higher than California's.

Who in the fuck would brag about Texas?

 I love living in Texas where men are men and women are women -- none of this sick liberal trans/pride shit. The property tax is a great trade off and Texans save thousands of dollars because there is no state income tax.

To use Millerspeak, Texas has NO reason for anyone who isn't an ASSHOLE BIGOT to LIVE THERE.

Not to mention their shitty power grid.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-heat-wave-ercot-18197437.php

  I can see by the names of those responding to the topic that these cretins can not refute the fact that Texas has no state income tax and, as expected, will post more nonsensical bullshit - just their typical, tired, lame responses to facts they can not dispute. 

Texas is a great place to live.  I was born there.  While my parents lived in Texas for 11 years, my dad was promoted and we moved to Illinois weeks after I was born.  My three older brothers were also born in the Great State of Texas.

I visit Texas a couple of times per year.  

Let's talk Texas property taxes.  My buddy Pete lives in a very nice area about 25 miles NNW of Houston.  I just checked Zillow, and his very nice 3700 sq foot house (no basement, however) is valued at only $456,000, and his property taxes in 2022 were $7020.  In Texas one can get a great home for not a ton of money.

BTW, Pete's country club has hosted the PGA Championship, the Tour Championship four times, the Ryder Cup, the Women's US Open, and the Shell Houston Open many times.  It's a 5 minute drive from his home.  It doesn't suck to be Pete.  Currently he is spending his summer at his town house in McCall Idaho......since Houston is hot in summer.

States that do not impose income taxes have two alternatives: 1) Decline to provide the public services that are paid for by those taxes in other states; or 2) Increase/impose other taxes to compensate.

Texas actually uses a combined approach. Public services--schools, roads, etc--are truly awful, and other taxes are sky-high. So...yee-haw Texas!!!