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Slimebeast on 16 August 2017
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outlawauron said:
Slimebeast said:

"Federal" as in nation-wide, determined by the government?

And "local" as in the city/community you live in?

Correct on both. Federal is the US government as a whole. Local taxes would be judged by each individual city. Most of that is reflected in taxes on property or specific goods (cigarettes, sugary drinks, etc).

Slimebeast said:

Wow, interesting. Almost a 10% difference in taxation.

I was a bit depressed at first when this thread was created, getting the impression that Texas is just backwards and evil, but it's interesting to hear another perspective, that Texas is in many ways successful while being so different from the rest of the country in economical policy.

Well, it's huge state in both population and size (it's ~700k square km, which is nearly twice the size of Sweden with ~28m people). It's a incredibly popular state for people to move to in order to escape the higher taxes and regulations of states like California.

Cool. The article linked to in the OP was about the size of a book, but I understand that Texas is growing very fast? Do you live there or nearby? Does Texas suffer from a shortage of water like Arizona?

Twice the size of Sweden and three times as many people, wow.

I find this to be so fascinating, the growth of the United States all the way from the early settlers, through the industrial era, when the US was dragged into the both World Wars, and its immense power today as the only superpower. Each time period it became increasingly powerful in relation to the rest of the world. This settler nation, the land of the free, it's so freaking powerful.