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Maryland will sue Trump administration over state tax-deduction cap
The Washington Times ^ | February 3, 2018 | Andrew Blake

Posted on 02/09/2018 5:09:35 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Maryland will sue the Trump administration for capping state and local tax (SALT) deductions in its new federal tax law, the state’s attorney general said Thursday.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act signed by President Trump last year contains a provision capping SALT deductions at $10,000, and Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh said residents across the heavily-taxed state stand to take a hit as a result.

“By eliminating the SALT deductions, Trump’s tax bill will jack up taxes for more than half a million Marylanders,” Mr. Frosh, a Democrat, said in a statement announcing his intent to sue the Trump administration. “It is an attack on state sovereignty and an attempt to cripple our ability to educate our kids, protect the Chesapeake Bay, and build the infrastructure that Maryland needs to be competitive in the world economy.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: 115th; bluestates; brianfrosh; deductions; hypocrites; lawsuit; liberals; maryland; salt; taxreform; trumptaxcuts
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1 posted on 02/09/2018 5:09:35 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 100American; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


2 posted on 02/09/2018 5:11:03 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: SkyPilot; Mariner; Rome2000; nopardons; Jarhead9297

PING!


3 posted on 02/09/2018 5:11:39 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

states can’t give up the federal trough


4 posted on 02/09/2018 5:11:42 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If they have to sue you, they are losing. I always thought it was terrible optics when Republicans talked about doing it over one Obama outrage after another.


5 posted on 02/09/2018 5:14:26 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Spend less or raise your taxes. What’s so hard about that? The state discount program is over. You don’t see southern states complaining, do you?


6 posted on 02/09/2018 5:15:40 AM PST by MountainWalker
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Of course he will. The lunatic asylum in Annapolis stupidly gave the ultra liberal attorney general unfettered authority to sue the federal government without input from the republican governor.


7 posted on 02/09/2018 5:16:15 AM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Do i understand this correctly? Maryland is suing because the Federal Tax bill net results in some residents paying more in taxes?

If successful, that precedent would mean that Texas could stop the next Rat Congress / President from raising any taxes, ever?


8 posted on 02/09/2018 5:17:40 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Another foolish (loosing) law suit.


9 posted on 02/09/2018 5:18:08 AM PST by Don Corleone (.leave the gun, take the canolis, take it to the mattress.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

BFD. They (Maryland) will lose. And they know it.
Political pandering as ever.
Don’t know if Republican Governor Hogan is in agreement
with this or not.
The Democrats are powerful enough in MD to do this over the
Governors’ objection.


10 posted on 02/09/2018 5:20:08 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Glad I moved out of that rat infested sh*thole sate 5 years ago. Very happy here in FL!


11 posted on 02/09/2018 5:20:12 AM PST by VastRWCon (LARGE PRINT GIVE IT, small print take it away.)
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To: Don Corleone

Pouring more taxpayer money down a rat hole.

The lawyers get rich, taxpayers get screwed.

A win-win for the uniparty.


12 posted on 02/09/2018 5:20:22 AM PST by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Don Corleone

Well if the are suing the Trump Administration they are suing the wrong people are Tax laws are passed by Congress.


13 posted on 02/09/2018 5:22:51 AM PST by WHBates
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If the state of Maryland didn’t overspend, it wouldn’t have to have such high state taxes. Why should people from other states have to subsidize Maryland’s taxes?


14 posted on 02/09/2018 5:23:16 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I don’t understand. I thought the left always said they wanted to close tax loopholes and make the rich pay more taxes. Well, they got what they wished for.


15 posted on 02/09/2018 5:23:17 AM PST by ops33 (SMSgt, USAF, Retired)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Trump didn’t write the law.


16 posted on 02/09/2018 5:25:46 AM PST by Vlad The Inhaler (The only trannie I want to see is a Muncie 4 Speed M-22 Rock Crusher)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’s a law. The only recourse is attempting to find unconstitutionality.

Glad to see that it is causing dems so much distress.


17 posted on 02/09/2018 5:32:26 AM PST by I want the USA back (Cynicism may just keep you from going insane in a world that has chosen its own demise.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Any and Every Lawyer that even files a case like this should be Disbarred Permanently on the Spot.

The US CONGRESS Passed Tax Legislation and the President Signed it. That is how our Constitution works.


18 posted on 02/09/2018 5:34:36 AM PST by eyeamok (Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’s not “Trump’s tax bill”.

It’s the People’s Law, passed by our Representatives in Congress assembled.

You can’t sue the President over Congress passing a law.


19 posted on 02/09/2018 5:36:19 AM PST by Jim Noble (Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

This should end in a SCOTUS decree that the states have NO RIGHTS to Federal money.

This would be a good thing.


20 posted on 02/09/2018 5:43:15 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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