[speaker001:] so what do you think about the uh income taxes
[speaker002:] well I could do with a lot less than that
[speaker001:] where do you live
[speaker002:] I live in Dallas
[speaker001:] okay I live in Dallas too
[speaker002:] oh good well I live in Plano in that case
[speaker001:] okay I live in uh in the Village do you know where that is I
[speaker002:] oh yeah I do yeah
[speaker001:] yeah well one thing I can tell you I hate about the taxes in Dallas is the eight and a quarter percent sales tax
[speaker002:] yes
[speaker001:] it I think it's like the highest in the US because my sister lived in New York and it was only seven percent there
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] Washington DC was only six percent and where I moved from Virginia was only four and a half percent and I can tell you we were upset when it went to four and a half
[speaker002:] I know
[speaker001:] it was only four percent
[speaker002:] and you know we had no sales tax here about oh I don't know maybe ten years ago we had none at all and that's how it started with uh four percent five percent
[speaker001:] really um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] and all of a sudden here we are now and it's horrible
[speaker001:] what since there's no uh state tax I assume that that's why it went up fast because Virginia does have a state tax
[speaker002:] well it's true but they did without it all those years
[speaker001:] um-hum hm
[speaker002:] and they keep talking about the state tax and they'll probably put one in and they'll have this too so
[speaker001:] yeah it if they put state tax in I mean I'll be pretty upset
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] because I mean part of the reason part of the incentives of moving to Texas from Virginia was the fact that you have no state tax and basically it adds about sixty dollars to your paycheck
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh every two weeks and uh if that comes back in
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I'll be pretty mad because sixty dollars a paycheck is a lot of money actually you know
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so uh I don't know I'm not very much for a for state tax
[speaker002:] well I hope it doesn't but you know how it goes so
[speaker001:] yeah they keep talking about uh you know the light rail system adding taxes
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and then uh there was another issue that came up I forget uh the horse racing
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] they're putting up the the racing fees they said they may raise taxes because of that yeah they said uh to build okay
[speaker002:] raise them
[speaker001:] apparently they said the builders would provide thirty million dollars in funds and the state would need to provide sixty five million dollars in funds
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] well in order to get the sixty five million dollars it would cause an increase in taxes but it seems like it would pay itself off
[speaker002:] oh well it will
[speaker001:] so you know what's the purpose of the increasing the sales tax you know
[speaker002:] probably the first season
[speaker001:] yeah so you know
[speaker002:] but they're funny about things like that here
[speaker001:] yeah things like that you know
[speaker002:] they really are when I came here you couldn't buy beer couldn't buy a drink nothing was open on Sunday not even a grocery store I mean nothing nothing you know
[speaker001:] um-hum  no huh
[speaker002:] so it was a lot worse and as more people come in it does get better but they still have some real funny laws
[speaker001:] um-hum I mean you know federal tax I mean everybody has to pay standard around the US and that doesn't bother me that much you know the you buy a house you cut your taxes a little bit the rest of it you pay what you owe
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] but uh like sales tax and I where I lived in uh in Virginia they had personal property tax in the counties
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and that was a lot my parents paid almost four thousand dollars a year in personal property tax on the house they paid almost a thousand dollars on uh
[speaker002:] oh that is
[speaker001:] on two of our cars and they paid like a couple hundred dollars on the other cars but the personal property tax itself used to add up
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] you know just I mean itself would probably add up to seven or eight thousand dollars a year
[speaker002:] hm yeah
[speaker001:] and that's a lot of money you know most places go ahead and just you know put it into your mortgage payment so you don't forget about it at the last minute you know and have to come up with the funds at the end of the year
[speaker002:] that is yeah hm
[speaker001:] but that gets real expensive
[speaker002:] oh yeah that is
[speaker001:] do they have that kind of tax down here on the houses at all do you know
[speaker002:] uh uh they well they do a little bit but um it's it's like next to nothing I've seen it it's on my when you pay your registration and stuff like that there is a little place
[speaker001:] um um-hum well you know like every year they renew the registration here kind of like fifty or sixty bucks
[speaker002:] uh-huh it costs what
[speaker001:] so it's only like fifty or sixty bucks to renew your registration here but in Virginia they won't renew your registration till you pay your property personal property tax
[speaker002:] yeah yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] and I had a I I paid you know twelve hundred dollars a year for my last car
[speaker002:] really
[speaker001:] for personal property tax alone so that was kind of a relief I guess
[speaker002:] God
[speaker001:] that's not too bad but other than that everything worked out
[speaker002:] yeah so you haven't been here very long
[speaker001:] what's that
[speaker002:] you haven't been here very long
[speaker001:] I've been here about two years now
[speaker002:] two years
[speaker001:] but uh in the two years I've I've been here I've been through I've had two cars
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so I've never really like you know I don't know if they if they ever will assess a personal uh any kind of tax
[speaker002:] uh yeah
[speaker001:] on the car other than what I paid when I registered uh registered the car
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] so that's the only thing I can really think of so so do you work for TI or you just doing this
[speaker002:] no I don't I'm a nurse I work down at Presbyterian
[speaker001:] okay yeah someone just mentioned this program to me so I thought it'd be kind of cool
[speaker002:] yeah oh it is you know they're supposed to cut you off at ten calls at least that's what I heard that you could could get to do ten calls
[speaker001:] oh do they really yeah I I don't know how the thing works uh
[speaker002:] and this is like the seventeenth
[speaker001:] oh really all right you
[speaker002:] yeah so it's great