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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.politics
Subject: Re: State Tax Dedudction
Message-ID: <199@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 23:45:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: nicmad.199
Posted: Tue Jun  4 23:45:55 1985
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Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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In article <896@mhuxt.UUCP> js2j@mhuxt.UUCP (sonntag) writes:
>> 	How does every one feel about Regans idea of 
>> disallowing State Taxes as a deduction ?
>> 
>> 	Sounds like double Taxation to Me. Perhaps
>> we should all write our congressman.
>
>     Seems like one of the best ideas I've *ever* heard come out of Ronnie
>Ray-gun.  Consider:  the marginal cost to a local government of each citizen
>is highest when the population density is highest. (else why are NJ, NY, NYC,
>CA, etc. the places with the highest local taxes?)  Some people choose to
>live in these places anyway, for whatever reason, and end up paying more to
>their local governments in taxes than people who live more rural areas.  They
>receive more services from their local governments as a result: better
>police protection, fire departments, garbage pickup, etc.  
>     Up till now, the federal government has been forcing people who live in
>low-local-tax areas to subsidize the taxes of the people who choose to live
>in the high-local-tax areas.  Disallowing state taxes as a deduction would
>stop this.  Do you really think that it was fair for you to force all of the
>people in the midwest to help pay your local taxes?  I don't.

You really shouldn't pick on the midwest.  According to our local news broad-
casts and words from our own gov, WI is one of the highest states in payment
of taxes from its residents.  I don't live here because I can deduct those
taxes from my federal return, but do you think it is also fair to have 
Uncle Sam give me back some money (I don't what yet), just so Uncle State
can take it away with high taxes?  It almost seems to me, until I can get
copies of the so-called formulas, that it would be a wash.  I don't win or
lose.  The tax reform is supposed to help me win.

I other words, I want the State tax deduction returned to the package.  I
would love to have Uncle State charge less taxes, then I would have less
to deduct, but I would also be paying less.
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