{"id":393,"date":"2004-10-05T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-05T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=393"},"modified":"2004-10-05T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-05T13:36:00","slug":"taxation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Taxation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Income tax in Rhode Island is about 9.5%.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve only now begun to realize how high that is.<\/p>\n<p>As a thought experiment, take your annual income, remove a &#8220;0&#8221; from it, and divide the result by 3,000.  That&#8217;s the number of perfectly usable, stable, used cars that you could buy PER YEAR with around 9.5% of your income.  Yeesh.  And to think, the state is just putting it towards buckets of cocaine or something.<\/p>\n<p>However, I work in Boston (at least, the server I log into for work is in Boston, and my direct deposits originate in Boston).  This means that MA will first take 5.2%, and then Rhode Island will take the remaining 4.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Screeeeeeeeeee!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Income tax in Rhode Island is about 9.5%. I&#8217;ve only now begun to realize how high that is. As a thought experiment, take your annual income, remove a &#8220;0&#8221; from it, and divide the result by 3,000. That&#8217;s the number of perfectly usable, stable, used cars that you could buy PER YEAR with around 9.5% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}