the easy solution is to drop all federal income taxes for equality.
also, if a state wishes to tax its people greatly, why should other, more tax-friendly states have to subsidize the heavily-taxes one?
a person should always be free to choose where he wishes to live without this market distortion of the feds.
You wrote:
“... why should other, more-tax friendly states have to subsidize the heavily-taxed one?...”
You’ve hit the nail right on the head.
I happen to live in TN, a pretty low cost-of-living state. I often have to listen to my peers back at ‘corporate headquarters’ in Delaware complain bitterly about their high local taxes (property and state). Note: our salaries are paid on a ‘national’ scale so the pay for a given level are the same, regardless of where one lives.
I just smile and happily report the size of my house and what little property taxes I have to pay, including our 18 acre lot. Plus the fact that TN has NO state income tax.
OTOH, ‘they’ get to deduct their state, local, and property taxes off their federal tax return. That doesn’t fully even things out... but it does mean that we low-taxed regions are subsidizing the high-taxed regions of the country.
Even so, it’s these high-taxed states whom are in the most trouble. Something’s going to give and I sure hope it’s not a federal bailout of the states/cities. That will mean even more money being taken from the Red areas to subsidize the Blue areas...