CA taxes in all categories are outrageous compared to the average of other states, except for property taxes, where they are defacto average.
In personal income taxes, sales taxes, and corporate income taxes (the other three big categories) we are highest or near-highest in the nation. Our property taxes, averaging 1 1/4% of assessed property value, appear low, but since the same house would be priced at 1/2 or 1/4 the value in Texas or Wisconsin, property taxes bills actually paid end up somewhere in the middle.
The Sacramento politicos are currently attempting to target Prop 13 as the source of all our fiscal woes. Of course its not spending. They want to end the one safety net for taxpayers so that CA property taxes join the other three categories and put us at the top for this tax category as well.
