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03-08-2013, 11:05 AM #25Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: Flacco is "technically" the 2nd-highest paid NFL player when taking into account...
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03-08-2013, 11:06 AM #26Legendary RSR Poster
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Re: Flacco is "technically" the 2nd-highest paid NFL player when taking into account...
I agree that some states are like that where they get you in other ways (FL, TN, etc) but I can say Texas aint one of them.
Forbes did a study a while back (I can't find it) of total tax burden by state and we were one of the lowest. Here's something that's along those same line ....
http://taxfoundation.org/article/sta...year-1977-2010
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03-08-2013, 11:11 AM #27
Re: Flacco is "technically" the 2nd-highest paid NFL player when taking into account...
I have friends who do not fly into BWI, buy gas & food with cash, avoid toll roads, and otherwise leave no trace of the time they spend in Maryland. They may or may not be skirting the 183 day rule. I have discussed with wife the idea of buying a Delaware condo for a few days per week, stay in Florida for a few weeks in winter, otherwise stay in Maryland for the minimal 180+ days (mostly for Ravens & O's games). Register cars and vote in State income tax-free Florida - it doesn't take a lot to declare Florida as residency to gain its tax advantages. Regretfully, my wife pulls out this feminine logic, that I have never understood, whereby it is more important to be so near the kids & grandkids that she closes her eyes to the financial reality of living in Tax Hell.
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Re: Flacco is "technically" the 2nd-highest paid NFL player when taking into account...
Here is another one, if anyone is interested.
http://www.economicfreedom.org/2012/...nomic-freedom/
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03-08-2013, 12:51 PM #29Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: Flacco is "technically" the 2nd-highest paid NFL player when taking into account...
I always find it funny when people say we are a left-wing state or a blue state. It is somewhat misleading, but not inaccurate. If you look at the recent presidential election or most state election, you would find more counties are red than blue. The blue ones just have more overall population.
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03-08-2013, 12:55 PM #30Legendary RSR Poster
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03-08-2013, 01:08 PM #31Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: Flacco is "technically" the 2nd-highest paid NFL player when taking into account...
Yes, but it is not a total picture...
If you drive west of Maryland, there is nothing blue about those counties...
I have always tried to tell people that Maryland and Virginia are similar, both have vastly different political cultures if you enter an imaginary line...
The suggestion that Maryland is a blue state implies that it is evenly distributed throughout the state in a sense, which it is not.
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03-08-2013, 01:19 PM #32
Re: Flacco is "technically" the 2nd-highest paid NFL player when taking into account...
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Re: Flacco is "technically" the 2nd-highest paid NFL player when taking into account...
No. An agent can earn the money from his office. He can claim that he meets his clients in various places but the work that he performs is from a particular location. A player is paid for games that take place in specific locations. The only thing a pro athlete can do is decide to play in a state that is tax friendly so at least half his salary is taxed at a more favorable rate. Teams from Texas and Florida have always pushed that when trying to sign free agents.
I used to work for a public accounting firm that had several MLB players as clients. Their returns were really crazy because you would have to account for every single game as a percent in a particular state. California at the time was talking about making it even worse by wanting to count rainouts differently. I'm glad I got out of there before that happened.
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03-08-2013, 01:39 PM #34Regular 1st Stringer
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Re: Flacco is "technically" the 2nd-highest paid NFL player when taking into account...
Are you serious? Saying that a state is not blue because it has red counties is like saying that the county is not red because it has blue neighborhoods. Where does it end? Just go by the population totals. Even states like New York and MA have a lot of rural land that is very conservative.
I think that the culprit for MD is the double whammy of Baltimore being a very liberal city, and Southern Maryland being mostly government workers and Lobbyists commuting to DC.
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03-08-2013, 01:43 PM #35
Re: Flacco is "technically" the 2nd-highest paid NFL player when taking into account...
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Re: Flacco is "technically" the 2nd-highest paid NFL player when taking into account...
Didn't read the fine detail of how they come up with this ranking but it sure seems inaccurate to me.
Living in TN there is no state tax but I am hit with city tax (don't live in the city) county tax, I pay city school and county school tax but have no kids that go there, it goes on and on. Nothing to do with liberal IMO because there is nowhere on earth more conservative than this place.
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