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Democrat led states have higher state and local taxes. Some of it due to policies that redistribute wealth, some of it due to mismanagement of the state.

Edit: also, Democrat led states have higher land prices, so generally, percent based taxes like property tax will be nominally much higher and hit the SALT deduction cap quicker.

It disproportionately punishes richer people in states with higher taxes (usually Democrat led) compared to richer people in states with lower taxes (usually Republican led), giving more incentive for richer people in states with higher taxes to either vote for lower taxes in their own state (i.e. vote Republican), or move to a state with lower taxes (a Republican led state).

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> Democrat led states have higher state and local taxes.

“More concentrated on higher-income earners” is both more accurate, and more relevant to the effect of the SALT limit (though having higher average income is also relevant to the SALT limit, overall tax burden and distribution across the income spectrum aside.)

E.g., R-trifecta Iowa has a higher overall tax burden than D-trifecta California, but substantially lower high-end taxes. [0][1]

[0] https://wallethub.com/edu/states-with-highest-lowest-tax-bur...

[1] actual total state & local tax burden by income is hard to find, but top income tax rates are indicative here: https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/fun-facts/states-with-t...

Do high earners consume progressively more proportion of their income in public resources than the poor? Why would you jack up their tax rate? Also note you picked the literally only one of 11 states in [0] above California that is (R).

Because high earners are rich people but not rich enough to be capitalists. So they get screwed and somehow capital gains isn’t blamed or tax loopholes but poor people.

Edit: my context was about taxes in general not specific enough to SALT

> Because high earners are rich people but not rich enough to be capitalists

“High earners” includes capitalists; one of the reasons the SALT cap hits hard in California is that California not only has the highest high-end income tax rate, it (unlike many states and the federal government) taxes capital gains as normal income, not at a reduced rate. Both parts of this policy are things that the SALT cap is designed to put pressure against.

The SALT cap, not the state and local taxes it targets, is pro-capitalist and anti-worker.

Ah thank you. You corrected my misconceptions in a few lines. Welp I hate it now! Thanks for solidifying my view.

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