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Lifelong Californian here. Recently moved to Florida. You should consider complaining to your local and state government about your high taxes. Why should work
by lebanon_tn 9y ago
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.
- hcknwscommenter 9y ago"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.
- lebanon_tn 9y ago#1 in gross collections, but per capita is a different story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_tax_revenue_by_state
- Redoubts 9y agoI don't see revenue vs outlays in that link.
- stillhere 9y agoJust because other states have weaker economies doesn't mean the residents aren't contributing their relative fair share.
- klipt 9y agoYou can say that about any deduction. Why should taxpayers who aren't Christian subsidize donations to churches?
- lebanon_tn 9y agoI 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)
- klipt 9y agoWhy 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.