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Re:Among the Tax Bill’s Biggest Losers: High-Income, Blue St... by lebanon_tn on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:49PM (#15855789)
Lifelong Californian here. Recently moved to Florida.

You should consider complaining to your local and state government about your high taxes. Why should workers in other states subsidize local taxes for higher cost of living areas through federal deductions? Force your politicians to justify what you are paying.

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Re:Among the Tax Bill’s Biggest Losers: High-Income, Blue St... by hcknwscommenter on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:52PM (#15855833)
"Why should workers in other states subsidize local taxes for higher cost of living areas through federal deducations"

Because those workers do not in fact subsidize my local taxes. As a Californian, I subsidize those low tax states as CA residents pay more in federal taxes than the state gets in federal benefits.

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Re:Among the Tax Bill’s Biggest Losers: High-Income, Blue St... by lebanon_tn on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:58PM (#15855886)
#1 in gross collections, but per capita is a different story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state

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Re:Among the Tax Bill’s Biggest Losers: High-Income, Blue St... by Redoubts on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:00AM (#15858659)
I don't see revenue vs outlays in that link.
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Re:Among the Tax Bill’s Biggest Losers: High-Income, Blue St... by klipt on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @08:15PM (#15857733)
You can say that about any deduction. Why should taxpayers who aren't Christian subsidize donations to churches?
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Re:Among the Tax Bill’s Biggest Losers: High-Income, Blue St... by lebanon_tn on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:12AM (#15861591)
I agree that a church should not be broadly exempt from taxation as the current system allows. Perhaps it could be narrowed to only exempt the value of actual goods and services provided to the community (like operating a homeless shelter or soup kitchen)
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Re:Among the Tax Bill’s Biggest Losers: High-Income, Blue St... by klipt on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:17PM (#15862834)
Why should donations that pay for churches to operate homeless shelters be tax deductible, while taxes that pay for state/city governments to operate homeless shelters aren't tax deductible?

This bill is just a GOP assault on states' rights.

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