So people making over 200K a year will pay more taxes, cry me a river.
A commenter in another thread posed a hypothetical about a family in CA vs. TX making $250k. Why should the one in CA get a big writeoff because CA has high taxes?
Of course, a state is free to tax it's citizens as much as it likes. But, that tax should not be deductible from state taxes, because it leaves families in other states to shoulder the burden.
Meanwhile, the mortgage interest deduction subsidizes people who can afford houses (in fact it incentivizes buying larger houses, which is also bad IMO). These are not the people who should be getting tax breaks.
Why should we explode the deficit if we need to make CHIP funding revenue neutral?
Why do we need stimulus in a booming economy?
The weather outside California is not great, unless there are places that have warm weather, not too much rain/snow, not too much humidity, no issues with tornadoes, hurricanes, flooding.
Maybe there’s some real gems I don’t know about. Would love to hear of them!