Tired argument. Virtually everything is regressive. The price of a loaf of bread is regressive.

The only taxes that are not, or at least less, regressive are taxes on the more expensive nice to have, vs need to have, items. Boats. Expensive cars. Second homes.

In short, luxury taxes.

If someone can provide a list of even 5 ways MS is superior to FL, I'll have an open mind. Doubt anyone can come up with 3.

Property taxes are for the wealthy and sales tax is against the poor? So you are saying that everybody that owns a home is wealthy? Far from it. Even if you rent, you are paying property taxes because the landlord takes all of his costs and passes them to the renter, and the renter does not get to right anything off. Renting is never a better option long term imo.

People with money buy more things and a lot more expensive items than the poor. How much is a new Rolls Royce/Porsche/lambo compared to a 10 year old Honda? Who will pay more taxes?

A real property tax would be ideal if we would just go back to a protection-only Gubbermint...Wealthier property owners have more to protect. Also, you won't turn merchants/employers into tax collectors for the State.

Mississippi getting rid of income tax is probably the best idea to help get them out of relative poverty. Tax on productivity is just evil.

Many blind people use special readers that allow them to post. Those readers aren't always accurate, as they are voice-to-text applications, and are dependent on what they "hear" you say, when they translate to text.

In addition, some people use predictive text to post, and while a word might be spelled correctly, it's the wrong word. But the device they're using doesn't know that you're trying to say "whose" and not "who's."

Lastly, some members are "English as a second language" posters, who might not realize that they're using an English word incorrectly.

I try to give people some slack when I notice a pattern, or a one-off typo. It might bug me if they constantly misspell words that are typically misspelled by full-grown high-school-graduate adult Americans who just don't care if they present themselves intelligently or not (such as two, too, to, tew, or weather vs. whether). Then again, I sometimes use run-on sentences. We all have our warts.

Pronunciation of spoken English has nothing to do with grammar and spelling in written English. Poor analogy.

If someone doesn't know the difference between, say, there/their/they're I find it hard to take seriously anything else in the post. Again, YMMV.

I think this is a misinterpretation this rule. John was making a general comment, as was I.

"Among U.S. states, Mississippi had the highest poverty rate in 2018 (19.7% poverty rate), followed by Louisiana (18.65%), New Mexico (18.55%) and West Virginia (17.10%)."

Yes, I was wondering when DeSantis said about the property taxes. Impossible. Then I saw him the other day talking about putting a limit on it. I.e, if you bought your house 20 years ago and paid 300 K and now worth 600 K. You should not have to pay more.

Property taxes fund essential services, which are subject to inflation. The Save Our Homes Act limits the increase in assessed value of your house to 3% annually (if you are homesteaded). It could be less. Assuming no change in the millage rate and the limit of 3% was reached every year, 20 years would equate to about a 1.8x increase in the assessed value of your house and therefore about a 1.8x increase in your property taxes.