Meaning these individuals who benefit from state deductions in these states already pay more than a vast majority of us at the federal income tax level. So in essence they are (hate to use this word) subsidizing the rest of us to begin with for simply the sin of making more and choosing where to live.
NY,NJ,CA those three states alone and the people living in them pay a great lions share of federal income taxes to allow the government to operate and the feds to continue increasing spending. Why shouldn’t they be ticked and allowed their deductions at the federal level? Maybe the feds spend more than what they should and have developed the next code language to extract more out of the serfs.....code word: subsidy
How much of this disparity of taxes sent to the fed gov vs tax money returned to these states is due to the small, but very impactful, number of super rich who live in these states? High taxes on the rest are just that, high taxes. Somehow these states keep voting in liberal leaders, much to the frustration of us conservatives.
So did you mean “shoulder”?
Also, it isn’t really surprising that high population states send more total dollars than low population states.