My state isnt at all bad. In fact it’s chum food compared to the fedzilla. However taking away from me just this small deduction is yet another way that we the US taxpayer gets bent over and continues to feed the Fed piggy. When was the last time anyone heard, “you know what we spend too damn much and steal too damn much from the taxpayers.”
Because of the crippling fed tax policy I look for any legal way possible to steal back my money from Uncle Sam. States are not the problem, the problem is with the feds and anyone thinking the elimination of a “tax entitlement” is akin to a voluntary mutually beneficial monetary transaction for the greater good.
So your state isn’t bad. Some states are horrible. So why wouldn’t someone who lives in a state that only gets to claim a small deduction on their Federal taxes be upset that someone else gets to take a much larger deduction when it’s all coming from the same pot, your income? If the deduction is eliminated isn’t that an equalizer when it comes to Federal taxes?