Edelbrock—Layoffs

Washington State has no income tax either, but public services (roads, state parks, etc) get funded from somewhere. Here it is sales tax and real estate taxes. The result is the less you make the higher your tax rate. If you retire and your income goes down, the real estate taxes just keep rising as property values go up, until you are forced to sell your house to survive. I wish we had an income tax here instead of what we have...