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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Oh, I agree. A hundred more pages here or there, and soon you're talking about a real disaster.
A true tax simplification should take up only a few pages.
I may just barely benefit from this thing. The 12% rate only goes up to $45K, and I lose my personal exemption. Pathetic.
Because that's EXACTLY where I'll be living if they pass this B.S.
Some already do, they join the Democrats in that ......
When exactly is the revolution anyway? I've been waiting for years. I'm only getting older and more feeble. I at least want to share in some of the fun taking the DC establishment out from their offices and into a waiting open noose strung over a strong oak tree branch, a vat of tar and a pile of feathers.
I mean geez, I want to party like it's 1776!
The top 11 are all Democratic states accounting for 170 of Hillary’s 232 Electoral College votes.
Which is why I shall no longer reply to your replies.
Great post and possibly THE best post EVER to have placed on this thread, in FR’s entire history!
OTOH...ALL of us who DO pay taxes and don't get an "earned income tax rebate" ARE subsidizing others in every other state!
And don't call others who ARE Conservatives, "LIBERALS", because that is what YOU are! As a matter of fact, your post proves that YOU are the one who is just mouthing a slogan that is demonstrably false, don't know what you're talking about, and have no idea, at all, to whom you are replying to.
And how would you feel if everyone took your advice, with EVERY SINGLE PERSON ( which would include a massive amount of actual liberals[ no, not those whom you and your ilk, here, are calling "liberals", but who are more CONSERVATIVE than you'll ever be!] and worse ) all moved to every single RED state?
You and others here, who post this stupid suggestion are incapable of understanding what you suggest and the consequences of it.
Oh, shut up, ya liberal. You pay more in State taxes so you pay less to the fed, leaving the rest of us to pay the difference.
Then throw in moving fees, what it'll cost to do research on where to live and find a house ( in your case...houses! ), schools, etc. and that cost won't be a pittance.
You claim your concern is double taxation, yet, you pay sales, gas, and other taxes after first paying your high State income taxes. That’s double taxation.
What personal exemption are you losing?
So "big investor", why don't you know any of that?
Yet the big corporations get to keep their deductions and if you believe that they'll lower prices, because they'll have more money, I have a lovely bridge, which was built on property my great, great grandparents once owned, to sell you...cheap!
When I moved here, there was no state income tax. Then a GOP governor had the "bright" ( as in blindingly STUPID ! ) idea to have one, and LIED to the populace, as Mnuchen and everyone else pushing this vomitacious tax INCREASE Bill, by saying that a lowered sales tax would more than make up for it!
People like YOU, fell for it, mouthed it as you and your ilk do here, re the lies being told, and so now we have BOTH sales ( the rate was NOT lowered all that much and never "made up for the state income tax! )and state income tax! Lower or get rid of these taxes, by doing a constitutional referendum? WHAT UNIVERSE DO YOU LIVE IN?
BRAVO!
State income tax.
Oh, right, personal exemption. The personal exemption, estimated to be $4,050 per person, is a way of deduction from your taxable income for each eligible person in your household. I would lost that for my bad self, too.
LOL...I used “breeder” too, in a reply a few days ago and that REALLY “triggered” a poster here. OTOH, that poster was all in for “sticking it to EVERYONE in ALL “blue states”, even though I had explained that some “red states” have very high property taxes, in some areas, too. None of it matters, the braindead pro-tax zombies here just keep marching in lockstep, regurgitating the same old propaganda and hurling calumny on anyone who doesn’t agree 100%.
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