New York Leads U.S. in Taxes, Tennessee Is Last

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New York Leads U.S. in Taxes, Tennessee Is Last

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers pay the highest state and local taxes in the nation, shelling out nearly $131 for every $1,000 of income in 2002, according to a new study.

Tennessee taxed its citizens the least -- they paid just under $84 for every $1,000 of income.

Massachusetts, ridiculed in the 1980s as "Taxachusetts" fell to 40th in 2002, as its residents only paid $96 in taxes for every $1,000 of income, according to a Boston-based business group.

On a gauge where a low ranking is positive, that was a marked improvement from a decade ago when Massachusetts came in 25th.

The study was done by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation, which assessed states' competitiveness using the most recent data available.

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http://news.findlaw.com/news/s/20040909/economystatestaxesdc.html

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1. donor city in a donor state

NYC taxes support the conservative sticks upstate, the whole state subsidises Tennessee, Texas and everybody else at the bottom of that list.

$20 billion, I want my $20 billion (per the newspaper boy in Better Off Dead).

[Yavin4]

2. That Can't Be

We've had a Republican governor and a Republican mayor for 12 years now.