{"id":911,"date":"2012-11-08T21:07:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T02:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orangesand.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2012-11-08T21:07:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T02:07:47","slug":"texas-tax-burden-among-nations-lowest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/08\/texas-tax-burden-among-nations-lowest\/","title":{"rendered":"TEXAS&#8217; TAX BURDEN AMONG NATION&#8217;S LOWEST &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas&#8217; state &amp; local tax burden is once again among the lowest in the nation according to the Tax Foundation&#8217;s annual ranking.\u00a0 For 2010, Texans paid some $3,104 per capita in state &amp; local taxes.\u00a0 The per-capita income of $39,142 yields a state-local tax burden of 7.9%, ranking the state 45th.\u00a0 Top-ranked New York had a tax burden of $6,375 (12.8%).\u00a0 Next is New Jersey, then Connecticut.\u00a0 At the other end of the spectrum are Alaska with $3,214 (7%) &amp; South Dakota at $3,035 (7.6%).\u00a0 The burden is calculated by taking the total state &amp; local taxes paid by state residents to both their own &amp; other governments, then dividing by each state&#8217;s total income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas&#8217; state &amp; local tax burden is once again among the lowest in the nation according to the Tax Foundation&#8217;s annual ranking.\u00a0 For 2010, Texans paid some $3,104 per capita in state &amp; local taxes.\u00a0 The per-capita income of $39,142 yields a state-local tax burden of 7.9%, ranking the state 45th.\u00a0 Top-ranked New York had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thebains.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}