[Conserv]

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Maryland brought the suit in July 2018, claiming the tax deduction limit was a way for the Trump administration to stick it to blue states. The judge ruled that the limit did not violate the 10th Amendment, which says that powers not delegated to the federal government in the Constitution are left to the states.

[DannyTN]

LOL the left sued trying to use the 10th.

They’ve completely ignored the 10th until now.

[Rinnwald]

I never understood the state income tax deduction. Why should people in high tax states pay less in federal taxes? Why should the federal government subsidize high tax states like New York and California? The imbeciles who voted themselves entrenched Democrat leadership are at fault here.

[euclid216]

Appointed July 20, 2011 by Barack Obama! Color me shocked. I think that’s the first time I guessed wrong about who appointed a judge.

[Wuli]

“The provision effectively raised the tax burden on citizens of high-tax states.”

A giant half truth amounting to a lie.

The provision forced the citizens of high tax states to recognize the effective high tax burden their politicians have raised on them.

Without the new federal tax provision the high tax states had federal taxpayers subsidizing their high state taxes with higher federal taxes on everyone, to fund the generous federal deductions allowed for state taxes.

In my book their should be either 1 of 2 things: Preferably no deductions for state taxes, or at the most deductions for state taxes set to be no more than what could be taken for state taxes in a state whose taxes were the median level of state taxes among all the states.

But my total preferred choice is a universal flat tax, with no deductions, no exemptions, no exclusions and no credits - just a flat tax everyone pays, period. The only exemption to it being universal is I would have an income floor below which the tax would not apply - for the very very poorest among us (but finding that level would count federal and state benefits as income).

[cuban leaf]

This is how the fed-gov was “shadow-subsidizing” those states. Rather than just giving the states money, they were reducing the income tax burden on the citizens of those states, allowing the states to “tax more”.

[House Atreides]

“...The provision effectively raised the tax burden on citizens of high-tax states...”
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I was surprised that Maryland was among the states trying to advance this lawsuit. As a Maryland resident, if they REALLY cared about their taxpayers they would allow us to itemize on our state tax returns without a requirement to first itemize on our federal tax returns. The DemocRATS in our legislature blocked the needed changes to allow this,