I gotta agree with Tamar on this one. I live in Tennessee, home of the free and the less taxed. We don't have a state income tax, which means my income can be less than someone in say, Ohio, and yet be more. I recently was in Ohio, doing consulting work, and once I received payment for services rendered, it was less than I would have made if I had worked on the program remotely, even though the fee was considerably more - communists!

I've been planning to retire to Colorado within the next 5 years, but I may have to keep dual residency to afford it! Tennessee is one of a handful of states that don't try to eat their citizens via ANOTHER income tax. I believe Texas and Florida are also in this. The more I see of government, the more I agree with Milton Freidman's idea "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."


>Yep, in a number of ways. First, you can choose to live somewhere else and pay taxes there instead.
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>Second, you get to vote for the people who set the taxes.
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>Third, if you think the taxes are too high or being spent poorly, you can try to convince others and make your vote go farther.
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>Tamar