??? I thought the federal income tax system as we know it started in 1913, via constitutional amendment allowing for it?
Taxes as a charitable deduction? Well I would have never believed mandatory health insurance would be declared as a tax by the supreme court.
Pass the popcorn!
These people are nuts. Isn’t charity voluntary? If state taxes are now a charity, they should be voluntary as well. Right?
BkMked.
This is genius, and a big F U to the anti-California communists who want to redistribute our wealth.
One option that could be considered by the Legislature would be to redefine state and local taxes as charitable contributions
That’s tantruming leftist crazy talk. And you “love it”? Ok.
The state can do what ever they want, the feds don’t have to abide by state laws.
CA shows its insanity once again.
Cool! Can I simply decline to make my “charitable contributions” to California and Santa Clara County? That’s far better than deducting those “contributions” on my 1040.
If a man can simply declare he is a woman anytime he wants and if we can declare two homos are “married” then why shouldn’t we be allowed to declare taxes are “charitable contributions.” We can be “definitional fluid” any time we want. It is the zeitgeist, after all.
I suppose it all depends on what the meaning of “is” is.
I’ve got an idea, CA can lower their damn tax rates!
Another option is for the non-liberal residents to move.
Why are conservatives cheering greater aid for corporations?
They are primarily responsible for destroying traditional values and enforcing PC culture.The big ones are led by Liberals.
F**- em’.
I wonder how many Republican congressmen from California will be returning in 2019. Or from New York. Or from New Jersey. Or from Illinois.
And you know what statell and local pols response to SALT staying in will be? Jacking state and/or local taxes. My local taxes are going up double digits. That’s not what I call MAGA.