[socal_parrot]

I live in CA also and what you are saying about the rest of the nation subsidizing the state is not true. For every tax dollar CA sends to the Feds, the state gets under a dollar in return. In 2017, CA received 99 cents for every dollar sent to DC. The average state gets $1.22 for every dollar sent to DC. South Carolina gets almost $8.00 This whole tax bill is just a further redistribution of tax dollars to states that are already "takers". Conservatives should be looking for a tax cut for all.

Helpful chart...

[Alberta's Child]

What’s the source of that chart? Some of those numbers seem way off.

[Axenolith]

CA doesn’t send anything to the Feds, CA’s taxpayers do. CA’s taxpayers get to deduct our ridiculously high income taxes from their federal returns, which I’d bet isn’t factored into that dollars sent vs returned. It essentially masks ~35% of the state income tax burden by returning it off the top of the taxpayers federal tax liability.