And now they pay more STATE taxes(deductions cut) as well because of their drive for utopia. Each state must be accountable and responsible for their own STATE tax burden.
They’re not paying any more money in State taxes than they were before. Losing the Federal tax deduction on State taxes didn’t change anything in any State’s tax code.
Each state must be accountable and responsible for their own STATE tax burden.
That is in my mind one of, if not the key issue related to this thread. All fifty States are in hock to the Fed, to the tune of 30 percent. That is the amount every state receives back from the Fed base on their Federal tax obligation. Some more some less but around 30 percent welfare payment, or return on investment if you consider Federal income taxes an investment.
In other words no state is completely responsible for their own State taxes. In my mind that makes them all welfare States. If they were truly responsible they would be self supporting without a third of their support coming from the Fed.
...and the bottom line to make it right, State citizens pay their State first, and what remains can then support the Fed. The State pays, not individual people sending money earned in a State directly to the Fed coffers. Thus the State is back in control and the bureaucracy saddled with sending money back to States where it originally came from can be severely curtailed.