Selma The Duck's definitions

taxugee

Tax + refugee. Someone purposefully moving from a high-tax location to a low-tax location, e.g. from Boston, Taxachusetts, to Live-Free-Then-Die New Hampshire, where there's no personal income tax nor sales tax.

That apartment building in Vancouver, Washington, is full of taxugees. Paying no income tax in Washington state, they shop across the river in Portland Oregon where there's no sales tax either.

by Selma The Duck December 16, 2008

taxigrent

Tax + emigrant, or tax + immigrant. Someone purposefully moving from a high-tax location to a low-tax location, e.g. from Boston, Taxachusetts, to Live-Free-And-Die, New Hampshire, where there's no personal income tax or sales tax.

That's a taxigrent community in Vancouver, Washington. They pay no income tax because they're in Washington state, and they shop at Costco in Portland, Oregon, where there's no sales tax.

by Selma The Duck December 16, 2008