Posted on 11/20/2017 4:42:05 PM PST by SkyPilot
The percentage of federal individual income tax filers claiming a deduction for state and local taxes paid in 2015, ranked by state:
1. Maryland: 45.7 percent
2. Connecticut: 41.3 percent
3. New Jersey: 41.2 percent
4. Virginia: 37.3 percent
5. Massachusetts: 36.9 percent
6. Oregon: 36.0 percent
7. Utah: 35.3 percent
8. Minnesota: 34.7 percent
9. New York: 34.5 percent
10. California: 34.4 percent
11. Georgia: 32.8 percent
12. Rhode Island: 32.8 percent
13. Colorado: 32.5 percent
14. Delaware: 31.6 percent
15. Illinois: 31.3 percent
16. Wisconsin: 31.0 percent
17. New Hampshire: 30.9 percent
18. Washington: 29.9 percent
19. Iowa: 29.5 percent
20. Hawaii: 29.1 percent
21. North Carolina: 29.0 percent
22. Pennsylvania: 28.6 percent
23. Arizona: 28.4 percent
24. Montana: 28.2 percent
25. Idaho: 28.0 percent
26. Maine: 27.6 percent
27. Nebraska: 27.6 percent
28. South Carolina: 27.3 percent
29. Vermont: 27.3 percent
30. Michigan: 26.5 percent
31. Missouri: 26.1 percent
32. Ohio: 26.1 percent
33. Kentucky: 26.0 percent
34. Alabama: 25.8 percent
35. Kansas: 25.5 percent
36. Nevada: 24.6 percent
37. Oklahoma: 24.0 percent
38. Mississippi: 23.3 percent
39. Louisiana: 23.0 percent
40. Texas: 22.8 percent
41. Indiana: 22.8 percent
42. Florida: 22.5 percent
43. New Mexico: 22.5 percent
44. Arkansas: 22.3 percent
45. Wyoming: 21.6 percent
46. Alaska: 21.4 percent
47. Tennessee: 19.3 percent
48. North Dakota: 18.5 percent
49. West Virginia: 17.0 percent
50. South Dakota: 16.9 percent
District of Columbia: 39.8 percent
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As I believe I said on another thread, this really is not a true tax reform; it is really a covert spending bill, counting on a combination of enhanced economic growth and tax-burden-shifting to close the gap on that awful $4 trillion budget outline that they passed for reconciliation purposes.
If they passed a true tax reform bill, it’s not as though these folks couldn’t create appropriations bills, the dollar sum of which is smaller than the budget outline, right?
I love those two. All that bitching about that photo is just resentful hate-mongering, in my opinion.
“Jack the standard deduction up to $24,000 per individual.”
With mortgage interest, SALT and alimony I deducted over $45,000 last year when I itemized.
Some say I’m a very lucky man.
Others ask why I don’t just quit working and grow dope for cash.
And I’m honestly torn.
I would just re-add personal exemptions back into the mix.
>> These people who complain about not paying fair shares in these blue states are getting their wish come true
The average household in CA and NY pay more to the fed than any other state. 5% more than Texans and upwards of 50% more than other red states.
I bet divorce lawyers just LOOOOOOVE that alimony deduction. Don’t forget who you’re really working for when you take that one.
I concur!
This issue seems to have flushed out a bunch of free republic members who have some sort of maniacal hatred towards certain geographic locations of the country and states. We saw the same thing with the California wildfires. Some members were applauding and laughing. You can go look at the threads if you don’t believe me.
And it doesn’t even make sense. For example, Pennsylvania waskey to Trump’s victory with its electoral votes. But Pennsylvanians will be screwed by this bill.
And even when you point out the facts to them, some Freepers just become more hateful and venomous. It’s really made me question the IQ and insanity of some of the members of FR.
I do know this: Representative Chris Collins is correct. The GOPe wrote this bill for their donors, not the middle class, and not the voters who elected President Trump. This bill is political suicide. We will lose the House of Representatives in 2018 if this passes. But they don’t seem to care. They have fat paychecks waiting for them as a lobbyists on K Street. It’s all about them. If people don’t believe that, they are incredibly naïve.
Mnuchin It’s such a weasel. He was grinning and lying on FOXNews, until the anchor challenged him that this really wasn’t a tax cut for many in the middle class. On the contrary, it was a tax increase. Then he got snippy. Typical Goldman Sachs jerk.
I don’t necessarily hate California, Maryland, Illinois and New York. I just want them to raise their money honestly, without effectively hitching their perfidy onto federal tax deductions.
Max,
Georgia is 29th. I wasn’t talking about your State.
Depends on your investment strategy
I don’t have a problem with Georgia. I desire to make the Fed rates much lower than they are in the Senate and House COVERT SPENDING bills, so that Georgia can likewise raise its money without hiding behind the federal tax deductions — which are really sops to lenders and banks (MID), real estate developers and realtors (PTD) and big state and local governments (SALT and PTD) — while displacing as few people — and preferably none — as possible.
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