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a major advantage Texas has over California is that its property taxes are higher and income taxes are lower

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Reihan Salam

@reihan

Jul 8

What seems on the surface to be a novel affordability initiative is a property tax regime that has helped make California incredibly inhospitable to the young, newcomers, aspiring homeowners, etc. x.com/judgeglock/sta…

12:27 AM · Jul 10, 2026

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Ethical Hustler

@SaveTheLibs

Jul 10

Property is like the only thing that should be taxed.

I wonder if a big impact of high property taxes is homeowners are less incentivized to drive up home prices through bullshit zoning rules.

You can imagine Texas’s property tax is a LVT on the land and a VAT on the improvement’s housing services. Given some assumptions, it’s 2% on the land and ~40% on the services which is arguably too high relative to the 8.25% sales tax and why people complain so much

That approach is actually incredibly anti-family and was a key factor in my departure from Dallas. Sales tax dependent state governments are a scourge.

CA property tax rates are lower but the property values are higher, much higher. You can't just compare tax rates unless you include property values.

But why should we pay higher property taxes in Ca? California income taxes higher by how much? This doesn’t make sense to me.

And yet it has been causing some big shortfalls and issues as development slows. The Sales and Property taxes really need to be higher to be sustainable

income - the literal thing that lets people who don't have money, have money - really should not be taxed.

California property taxes are only lower for old people, they are absolutely brutal for younger people.

tweep

@f42502

19h

Worth noting that this means the tax burden on the middle class is higher in TX than CA — which I’m fine with but I hope a lot of libertarian/conservative types understand what they’re arguing for

Texans pay more in taxes than Californians and have worse crime and worse government services.

That’s mainly an advantage for wealthier people rather than poorer ones, because poorer people still have to pay implicitly pay high property taxes and relatively high sales taxes too.

PWS3000

@PFunkulous

23h

Guess what’s higher in California… median household income… it’s about 25% higher in Cali… know what else is better… the weather and the quality of life. You can have Texas, Cali-fornie is the place for me…

it makes fighting the county over your property tax every year a combat sport

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Don’t Call It San Fran

@DCISF

16h

Almost makes up for literally everything else in which CA has the advantage. Have fun paying low faxes in a state where either the heat or AC is always broken

There's an old saw about how Texas is only worth moving to if you make more than $120K a year if you only look at quality of life by amount of tax paid

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Anthony DiGiorgio, DO, MHA

@DrDiGiorgio

Jul 10

Among many major advantages. It’s easier to build things in Texas. Look as their solar energy boom.

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It’s interesting how if you just look at those two examples you’d think that rent prices are extremely negatively correlated with property taxes

But Armand that’s not “progressive”

"its income taxes are lower" 0% is definitely lower

I’m a georgist

Are California's big edges only *perfect weather *interia with existing tech/vc networks + 0 non-competes? I mean that's not bad! But is there something else?