[JohnLongIsland]

the irony of the AMT is that it hits the red staters worse than the blue staters.

[GSlob]

"the irony of the AMT is that it hits the red staters worse than the blue staters"
???- It hits worse in the states and localities with high tax rates and higher incomes on which those rates are levied [Inhale deep and start singing "New York, New York"]. And New York, especially NYC, is a "blue" location.