This is an argument about State taxes and who is responsible for paying them. Federal taxes(and deductions) have nothing to do with it.
Maybe to you it is. My original point specifically addressed the first paragraph in the article where the author claimed that high-tax "blue" states are being subsidized by the rest of the country. They're not.
That point has nothing to do with who pays state taxes, and everything to do with who is paying FEDERAL taxes.