Your line:
“That was about immigration and trade. Not Leftist redistribution crap like eliminating the deductibility of taxes.”
is B.S.
Due to the difference in state and local taxes between the states, often quite large, the deduction of state and local taxes in the federal tax system makes for a multi-billion dollar federal redistribution of the share of federal taxes from states with higher state and local taxes to states with lower state and local taxes.
We are not a unitary-government nation, with states as merely branches of the federal government. Historically and correctly what are the state and local responsibilities, and particularly how they self-finance is not the federal government’s responsibility, nor blame.
If you want to live where you pay 2 times X in state and local taxes, why should everyone in the nation have to pay higher federal tax rates in order for the federal budget to afford it? We shouldn’t.
Your opinion and nothing more, bubba.
Find me a Republican party plank that ever mentioned this, and find me a point in Trump’s campaign that ever mentioned it.
All taxation schemes have competing flaws.
But the idea that you shouldn’t be taxed on money paid as taxes is as old as the Republic - why do you think those deductions were there in the first place? It wasn’t an accident.
PS: the people in those tax brackets who pay this crap are people like...me! And in those Evil Blue States, we’re the Trump voters. If the so-called Republican party wants to penalize us because they think they can get a few Union voters on their side in Wisconsin with a 2% tax reduction they won’t even notice, they’re as dim as I always thought McConnell was.
We did NOT vote for having our taxes raised.