Let's not forget about our sales tax. Top 7 in the country (state and average local) according to the google.
This is interesting.
https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-burden/20494
This sort of thing is some really great intellectual dishonesty by the right.
Let's say you're Nevada. No state income tax, a lot of other taxes are generally low. Because they have a super high transient occupancy tax, that is paid by tourists on their lodging bill. In Lake Tahoe, the transient occupancy tax is 14%
The shell game played there, is that tourists don't care what part of the bill is tax and what part is rent. They look at the all in cost. So if a room is $85 with a $15 tax, or $100 with zero tax, to the tourist, it's the same.
So just like a tariff, the tax isn't paid by the tourist, it's paid by the *landlord*. But it's not just a tax paid by the landlord itself, but trickles down in the form of reduced wages to the staff.
The staff doesn't care if they got paid $8.50 an hour with no tax, or $10 with $1.50 tax - in the end it's $8.50 into their bank account. It just feels better if the actual tax was collected from the tourist and resulted in reduced wages, instead of them paying tax on increased wages.
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