Texas Attracted California Techies. Now It’s Losing Thousands of Them. - eviltoast

The “Texas Miracle” loses some of its magic as Oracle announces it’s moving its new HQ out of Austin and Tesla lays off nearly 2,700 workers.

  • capital@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Income taxes get all the attention but they aren’t the only taxes.

    I don’t know about the 600k figure specifically though.

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      7 months ago

      They aren’t. There is sales tax too, which is higher in Cali. And property taxes seem moot if we’re talking about poor people, no?