• paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6 minutes

    They should have the highest bike usage and best bike infrastructure in the US, then. 😔

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 hour

    californians, despite high state income taxes, have lower other taxes. On net they pay less in tax than texans, who have no state income tax. check out ITEP.org’s Who Pays report every year. they run a report that totals the entire tax regime (income, sales, property, fuel, the whole shebang) in a state, including federal taxes, runs a sample family’s books at various income levels, sees what their taxes (all of them) would be, then makes a big report for the entire country.

    In Texas, if you are poor you pay more of your income toward taxes than the rich. That’s because the graduated income tax rate most states have corrects for the regressive tax structures in just about every other tax. Texas has no income tax. You see the same thing in Washington State. In California, the rich and the poor pay about the same percentage of their income toward tax, and it is lower than Texas at every income level. Funny that.

  • IWW4@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5 hours

    I assume that is because of the poverty levels in Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama.

    Not sure what to say about Wyoming. I wonder if Indian Reservations squew the numbers for Wyoming.

    • OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      The jobs in Mississippi don’t pay worth a damn. It doesn’t help that employers secretly hate their employees for costing them money. If they could pay you less than minimum wage, they would.

      It’s the same for white collar and blue collar workers. Maximum exploitation in order to reach quarterly earnings goals.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5 hours

      Wyoming resident here. The distances are vast, the altitude is high and depending where you are the inclines don’t mess around.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      Lower income, more driving, less fuel efficient cars, more sprawl, worse public transit.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      Yes, but that is combined with driving longer distances for commutes and other crap.

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 hours

      *skew

      And yeah that does make a lot of sense. For Wyoming honestly it’s also just a massively spread out state compared to nearly anywhere else

  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5 hours

    Let’s see… this shows the ratio of money spent on gas to your income levels. That means a higher ratio is more painful when gas prices spike and less painful with a lower ratio.

    9 of the top 10 states for highest/worst ratio are Republican Trumpland. 9 out of the top 10 states for lowest/best ratio are Democrat majority states (with Pennsylvania being swing).

    Republicans are really playing some 4D chess by allowing Trump to start a war nobody wants that causes huge gas price spikes when it hurts their base the most… months before an election where their jobs are on the line.

    • innermachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 hour

      Don’t worry, their all spouting off about how “the president doesn’t control gas prices”. Remember when gas went up under Biden and all the magats said it’s his fault? Now their throwing back about “well the president didn’t control gas prices then but now he does when it’s trump?” Fuck I kind of wish I was half that stupid maybe I wouldn’t be so pissed off right now

    • ugh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      The spikes in gas prices and health insurance premiums are doing more than any presidential debates have done in the past decade. Consequences are needed to get the attention of conservatives and moderates. Unfortunately, most MAGA supports are far too brainwashed.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    5 hours

    Mississippi, Wyoming, Arkansas, and Alabama

    So once again, these complete dumbasses voted against their own interests with a consistency, and somehow are NOW unhappy about all that…?

    • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      Remember when gas prices spiked after Russia invaded Ukraine? Biden’s fault. But when Trump invades Iran and gas prices spike? Also Biden’s fault!

      /s