Effective tax rates in Minnesota, considering state and local taxes (Source: Minnesota Department of Revenue)
The effective rate for the top 5 percent of households, those earning $175,704 and higher, was 9.7 percent — compared with 12.4 percent for a family earning between $31,000 and $40,000.
From “Minnesota’s overall tax burden is increasingly regressive,” by Sharon Schmickle
*sigh*
Edited to add the article starts this way:
Before I leap into a thicket of tax facts, I’m going to expose my cynical side, the part of me that believes this: Facts don’t matter. Perfectly sensible people will defend their positions on tax issues — even positions that run against their own best interests — because they subscribe to a certain political dogma, not because of the facts.
Yup, although when you’re voting on a candidate and not an issue, you have to weigh multiple priorities. What’s interesting — and often maddening — is that people on different ends of the political spectrum can totally disagree on whether something like dollars out of your pocket due to higher taxes is in their own best interest.