Hey dipshit, it was your Tax “Cuts” and “Jobs” Act that took SALT away.
I don’t know who’s the bigger goddamned morons: this goddamned moron, or the goddamned morons who don’t realize he’ll say whatever he thinks will get him elected.
That’s all correct, just want to add that the political motivation cannot be understated. Blue states tend to have better employment, higher average wages, and a more educated workforce. As such, they pay more in taxes than their Red State counterparts, both state and federal tax. Plenty of red States under Republican leadership have tried to eliminate most of their state taxes so that they rely even more on federal tax revenues to subsidize their shitty state economies by paying for minimum basic services.
Blue stamps don’t want minimum basic services, they want good services; good schools, good state roads, a modern and competent law enforcement and justice system, a well-funded education system, a strong system of public higher education and high quality flagship state university, and many other things.
Red States have thrown in the towel on all that stuff, gutted public services and institutions, sold it out to private equity, in the name of lower state taxes.
By limiting the federal deduction for taxes paid to the state, blue states are taxed even more. That is the intented consequence of this move by Trump and the Republicans. Just as with their COVID response, their calculation was that it would harm their political opponents moreso than their own constituents, and since that’s the only qualification for Republicans to support a particular policy, Trump enacted it into law. I wouldn’t call it treason per se, since tax policy can hardly be considered an act of war or revolt, but it’s certainly treasonish in its disdain of the American people.
There was so much shit during his presidency, that people have amnesia about all the harm he did.
Hey dipshit, it was your Tax “Cuts” and “Jobs” Act that took SALT away.
I don’t know who’s the bigger goddamned morons: this goddamned moron, or the goddamned morons who don’t realize he’ll say whatever he thinks will get him elected.
Contrary to their claims, it doesn’t just affect the rich. It many of us in high tax states, and was politically motivated.
It does need to go but I would never trust the person who created it in the first place, nor give him credit for backing out his own spiteful action
The SALT reductions weren’t designed to target the rich; they were designed to punish blue state voters for not worshipping the moldy orange god.
Blue state economic successes are proof that Conservative ideology doesn’t lead to prosperity; ergo they must be demonized.
That’s all correct, just want to add that the political motivation cannot be understated. Blue states tend to have better employment, higher average wages, and a more educated workforce. As such, they pay more in taxes than their Red State counterparts, both state and federal tax. Plenty of red States under Republican leadership have tried to eliminate most of their state taxes so that they rely even more on federal tax revenues to subsidize their shitty state economies by paying for minimum basic services.
Blue stamps don’t want minimum basic services, they want good services; good schools, good state roads, a modern and competent law enforcement and justice system, a well-funded education system, a strong system of public higher education and high quality flagship state university, and many other things.
Red States have thrown in the towel on all that stuff, gutted public services and institutions, sold it out to private equity, in the name of lower state taxes.
By limiting the federal deduction for taxes paid to the state, blue states are taxed even more. That is the intented consequence of this move by Trump and the Republicans. Just as with their COVID response, their calculation was that it would harm their political opponents moreso than their own constituents, and since that’s the only qualification for Republicans to support a particular policy, Trump enacted it into law. I wouldn’t call it treason per se, since tax policy can hardly be considered an act of war or revolt, but it’s certainly treasonish in its disdain of the American people.
There was so much shit during his presidency, that people have amnesia about all the harm he did.
It’s not like he even knows what he’s talking about. He’s at the “just says shit” point in the dementia.