Obviously lostpassword has won this debate. All mariner can come up with are petty insults. Much like liberals do when they have run out of intelligent things to say.
LostPassword And many others here have a great point that the complainers refuse to even acknowledge. You love your blue state and can see no wrong in how it is run.
Hey, if you want to join the bandwagon of ignorance nobody can stop you.
The taxpayers in CA pay more in Federal taxes than they receive in Federal expenditures. The same is true for NY, NJ and IL.
How about your state? Name your state and I will show you the net tax paid vs the net federal benefit received.
Who is subsidizing whom in the Federal arena?
To suggest or claim that these states are a burden on Federal Taxpayers in other states is sheer ignorance.
Two filers with almost identical circumstances get treated differently by the current tax code. Filer ‘A’ comes up just short of having enough deductions to itemize while Filer ‘B’ is a bit over.
The activities of filer ‘B’ that bumped him up are obviously more virtuous to some here and are thus worthy of forcing Filer ‘A’ to subsidize.
I never noticed those in high state tax areas clamoring for fairness for those in states that collect their revenue more through sales and use taxes.
Policy decisions that lead to higher state taxes - zoning restrictions that raise housing costs, union labor used in home construction, high pensions for state employees cannot be fixed by the federal gubermint.