A ridiculous distortion. What is returned to states depends on what is paid to the Feds and CA has been subsidized for years. State taxes are intentionally kept high so that money does not go to DC, while other states such as MO that actually have a balanced budget are screwed to the ground for treating their citizens fairly. Trump and the republicans have declared that time is over, thanks to tax reform.
That is completely false.
And state taxes were never kept high so that Washington could get less. Look, I am against high taxation at every level, but there is a reason the US Tax Code since 1913 made double taxation via SALT illegal. They called not allowing state and local taxes to be deductible “immoral.”
The Tax Law gives a MASSIVE tax cut for corporations, and sends the tab to millions in the middle class to “pay for it.” Do you know how many middle class families should have their taxes raised so that corporations get Billions in tax cuts?
Zero.