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Tue 10 May, 2005 09:44 am
This is a bit complex.
But for my next "computer trick", I want to develop an applet to show the reality of "underemployment" and the "McEconomy".
By calculating at what point a person makes enough money to rise above the poverty line for various cities.
I would need this as well as ways to calculate city and state taxes for each of the cities.
Please help?
Are you asking where you can get the relevant data from, or how to program the applet?
Thomas wrote:Are you asking where you can get the relevant data from, or how to program the applet?
The data.
Programming the Applet should be pretty cut & dry (famous last words)
For a first shot, I would take the thresholds from the Census Bureau's
Poverty statistics, which give you the poverty lines by family size. To adjust this first shot for regional differences, I would use one of the regional cost of living indices that you find on various job search sites. One page which contains the information in table form is
here. I hope this is workably close to what you were looking for.
You're not going to be able to be very specific though. For example, here in Ohio, some jurisdictions have a municipal income tax--others do not. Where there is no municipal income tax, there may be a school district income tax, but each district sets its own rate, in fractions of a percentage point, and not exceeding 2%. Some districts assess the tax, some do not. The base sales tax in Ohio recently increased from 5% to 6%, but municipal and county authorities may increase that tax rate. All of this would be in addition to the State and Federal income taxes.
My point being, you will either need to have a very simplistic (one might say, an oversimplified) tax equation, or an enormously complex and location specific formula. The types of variations which i pointed out in Ohio are to be found throughout the country, and vary widely from state to state, and within states.
Thomas--
Thanks for the links.
Setanta wrote:You're not going to be able to be very specific though. For example, here in Ohio, some jurisdictions have a municipal income tax--others do not. Where there is no municipal income tax, there may be a school district income tax, but each district sets its own rate, in fractions of a percentage point, and not exceeding 2%. Some districts assess the tax, some do not. The base sales tax in Ohio recently increased from 5% to 6%, but municipal and county authorities may increase that tax rate. All of this would be in addition to the State and Federal income taxes.
My point being, you will either need to have a very simplistic (one might say, an oversimplified) tax equation, or an enormously complex and location specific formula. The types of variations which i pointed out in Ohio are to be found throughout the country, and vary widely from state to state, and within states.
I had all intentions of contacting municipal authorities (perhaps under the guise of this being an academic project).
PS. Where in Ohio are you from?
I am not from Ohio, and often wish very much that i were from Ohio, and from it long ago. I presently live in Franklin county, hard by Columbus . . . emphasis on hard.
Ohio is a great place to be from. I'm as from there as I can get!
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