States should control their tax and spending. They keep raising States taxes because they will deduct off Federal Tax. It time to put an end to the madness and have the State deal with their own individual taxes.
I believe that state and local taxes are way too high in many respects and localities.
But what you are advocating is a greater increase in Federal power. It is the Feds (by far) who take the most in taxes away from us.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-30/why-eliminating-state-and-local-tax-deduction-terrible-idea
Furthermore, the SALT deduction was placed in the Federal Tax Code in 1913 to prohibit double taxation by the Feds, which was deemed "immoral."
My, how times have changed.
Moreover,