Wrong! The feds should have no say in my paycheck but yet they do. Some here would rather the Fed leviathan continue to grow through the continued theft of my paycheck vs. more direct control at the state level. Why do we have socialist tax brackets to begin with? How about we work to FURTHER reduce the Fed tax to almost nothing, and kill their spending and let the electors at the state level decide what should be paid locally?
How about working in your own state to reduce the tax burden? Get them to cut spending instead. You have a lot more control over that and this new tax bill gives you an incentive to do something about it.
The Feds tax income. Your state taxes property, which you pay from your income. Sounds like neither is double taxing you or both are depending on who you choose to blame.
No, not wrong. It's still a chicken and egg argument. If you truly believe the public can decide how our tax dollars are spent, I have a bridge to sell you. I live in California, and have a nutty governor and state legislators who steal my tax dollars and spend on many things I disagree on. In California, many of us have no direct control over state spending. What we all need is a flat tax, and none of these stupid games of shuffling funds around and continually raising the combined tax load on workers.
The Federal Government gets to tax your income because of the 16th amendment to the Constitution:
“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”