Without any reduction in spending, agreeing to this tax plan means more will be taken from you now and they will still banckrupt you later. Why is that a good idea?
Flat tax that everyone pays, anything else is more of the socialist same.
I don’t disagree with you, and I’d love to see either a flat tax or the “fair tax.” I’m very disappointed that Republicans have completely ignored the need to reduce federal spending in concert with any tax cuts, but it is what it is at this point. I was just making a point about the fact that the scam of shifting the burden of poor local taxing decisions by allowing residents of those jurisdictions to deduct onerous local taxes from their federal taxes has to stop, and I don’t see any way to do that without some initial pain. The intent should be to force those states and municipalities that have chosen to tax themselves to death to have to bear the entire burden of their own decisions, and thereby to push them toward reducing taxes at those levels as well.
There’s no principled argument against this, though I do concede that there are a number of pragmatic arguments to be made regarding how to accomplish this without hurting innocent people in the process. I just don’t see how this travesty can be corrected, though, without pain. Ultimately, people should have to bear the burden of choosing to live in high tax states. It’s at least as “unfair” for residents of those states to shift their burden onto the people of more responsible, lower-tax states as it is to simply require the residents of the high tax states to finally take ownership of their state’s and cities’ choices (and their choice to continue to live there).