True, but they are some of the ones that are trying to defeat tax reform because it infringes on their tax deductions, when their taxes have nothing to do with the rest of the country.
They are perfectly justified in taxing themselves, but they have no right to expect the rest of the country to subsidize those taxes.
Your language, just like the language of Paul Ryan, is the language of the left. Your premise is that the government owns the fruits of our labor, and a deduction ("loophole" to people like you and Ryan) takes from the mouth of FedGov. How twisted.
You aren't subsidizing shit when someone takes a tax deduction to which they are lawfully entitled. Many of us live where the jobs are, and don't have the portability of moving to no-tax states. I've lived in 4 high-tax states, three of which are manufacturing-rich states, and I work for manufacturers.
I'm currently in Wisconsin - in 2013 (last stat I saw) it was the top manufacturing state in the nation, with 795 manufacturing jobs per 10,000 people. Similar results with the rest of the rust belt - Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Kansas.
Wisconsin has been lead by Democrats and Socialists for decades. I was part of the effort to make Wisconsin purple with brief shades of red, with Scott Walker and a Republican legislature. I'm on the tax Committee and Public Policy Committee of professional and statewide manufacturing group. Taxes have been going down, but the ability to turn a rust-belt state into a no-tax or low-tax state is extremely difficult if not impossible.
Maybe I can say federal taxes from our Wisconsin manufacturing jobs are subsidizing the sloth in your state.
I'm sick of Republicans buying into the divisive language of the left, whether it's class envy or tax policy.
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