Quote Originally Posted by crawford View Post
Reread my post.

The poor are concentrated in communities with city income taxes. The wealthy are concentrated in communities without city income taxes.

A Bloomfield Hills resident pays 4.35% in state & local

A Pontiac resident pays about 7% in state & local
True, but I was basing it on this:

Quote Originally Posted by crawford View Post
What I don't understand is why we have a flat income tax. It's really horribly anti-working class.

Why should someone making $20,000 pay the same proportion of their income on taxes as someone making $1,000,000? Terribly regressive.
And you are absolutely correct about local income taxes being regressive.

But my question here is why did local voters approve them in the first place?