So people who are forced to pay the Feds taxes upon taxes that they already paid are "subsidizing you" personally?
Taxpayers are not welfare recipients.
It is really not complicated. If a taxpayer in NY is able to deduct $24k, but a taxpayer in FL with identical AGI has lower SALT and can only take the standard deduction of $12k, then even AOC can understand that as a NY resident she benefits with a lower tax rate than the Florida taxpayer, all because SALT are higher in NY. That is totally unfair to the FL taxpayer. Why should he be paying higher tax than a NY taxpayer simply because he chose to live in a low tax state.