The following article by Glenn Kessler was posted on the Washington Post website March 22, 2018:
It depends. California’s income tax has the highest tax on top earners in the country, but the state’s property taxes are below average. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)
“I think Governor [Jerry] Brown’s done a very poor job running California. They have the highest taxes in the United States. … Hey, I have property in California, I will say. I don’t think too much about my property anymore but I have great property in California. The taxes are way, way out of whack and people are going to start to move pretty soon …. [T]he taxes are double and triple what they should be. And everybody that lives in California, they know it.”
— President Trump, remarks to reporters while touring prototypes of the wall he wants along the southern border, near San Diego, March 13, 2018
A number of readers from California wrote to express outrage at the president’s remarks about the state’s taxes when he visited the state. In particular, they noted that he mentioned property that he owns in the state and yet complained “the taxes are way, way out of whack … double and triple what they should be.” Continue reading “President Trump’s claim that California has the ‘highest taxes in the United States’”