And it seems to me people claiming tax payers are being subsidized when they deduct state income taxes are claiming that money belongs to the federal government. To deny the federal government is wrong. So much for states rights, decentralized governance...
You are blaming the wrong government there.
When you ‘deduct taxes’ paid to over government entities, that is supporting the other governments (state, city, county, local, and any other deductions).
That allows those things being ‘deducted’ to go on robbing peoples pockets. Think solar panels and how the obambi group used our taxes to not only subsidize them, but also gave big deductions to people who bought them. While they also had ties to those companies. It not only robs us in the long run. It takes away our control over our own money.
Those ‘deductions’, and yes, including deductions for other governments taxes, is a lie. That is just us being forced to support liberal government entities to continue over taxing and pet projects.