Anonymous wrote:I lived in Texas for 14 years, was a homeowner for two. While there's no state income tax, the property taxes are pretty high to make up for it. They don't seem to be suffering.

Unless there's either a hurricane or an ice storm, both of which now seem to hit Texas every year.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else wondering how much West Virginia eliminating income tax will draw people to move there?

I wouldn't live in Florida but I might live in WV....

https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2024/Pages/Gov.-Justice-announces-4-percent-personal-income-tax-cut-trigger,-marching-West-Virginia-closer-to-eliminating-tax.aspx

https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/west-virginia-gov-justice-announces-4-cut-to-personal-income-tax-pushes-for-more/article_1ba6b644-3f9f-11ef-b297-5357ebf54706.html

OP, please don't post exaggerations. i wasted time on your post. The story is only a 4 percent reduction not wholesale abolition. Be more judicious in your posts

Anonymous wrote:Just don’t freak out when you regularly encounter Billy Bob and Mee Maw at the grocery store looking at Mountain Dew with a gun strapped to their hip.

I don't worry about people who open carry. They're way more responsible than the gangstas shooting up the 'hood.

It’s works for deleware in attracting retirees but w va is so poor with such endemic issues it not sure it’s a good plan.

I spent some time in Charleston for work and it’s a hard no for me.

It’s a shell game. The costs are the costs and they’ll extract the funds from people under some other header.

I've considered moving there (have a house in Canaan Valley, which is significantly cooler in the summer than DC, the high today is 76*) but the bad schools is what's holding me back.

West Virginia is under rated in a lot of ways (at least in some parts) but it's not a feasible option for me, with or without income taxes.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems like a good idea for drawing people there

and how will they pay for city services for all those people moving there?

City services?

Just don’t freak out when you regularly encounter Billy Bob and Mee Maw at the grocery store looking at Mountain Dew with a gun strapped to their hip.

I lived in Texas for 14 years, was a homeowner for two. While there's no state income tax, the property taxes are pretty high to make up for it. They don't seem to be suffering.

Anonymous wrote:Seems like a good idea for drawing people there

and how will they pay for city services for all those people moving there?

Typical red state stuff - let's pay less taxes and rely on the $ feds collect from blue states.

Seems like a good idea for drawing people there

Great, they'll have to rely even more on federal tax dollars, and have even crappier schools.

Anyone else wondering how much West Virginia eliminating income tax will draw people to move there?

I wouldn't live in Florida but I might live in WV....

https://governor.wv.gov/News/press-releases/2024/Pages/Gov.-Justice-announces-4-percent-personal-income-tax-cut-trigger,-marching-West-Virginia-closer-to-eliminating-tax.aspx

https://www.wvnews.com/news/wvnews/west-virginia-gov-justice-announces-4-cut-to-personal-income-tax-pushes-for-more/article_1ba6b644-3f9f-11ef-b297-5357ebf54706.html