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Democrats in Congress representing high tax, big spending states like California are pushing for restoration of the State and Local Tax (SALT) Deduction in the budget reconciliation bill. But restoring the full SALT Deduction would “make it rain” in these states – with taxpayers in low tax states paying higher taxes to facilitate tax cuts for high-income earners in these blue states and subsidize the reckless state tax and budget decisions. |
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California Has “Been There, Done That” |
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How The SALT Cap Transfers Wealth to High-Income Earners in California and New York |
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| “The primary reason politicians like Schumer representing high-tax states want to restore a higher SALT deduction is because it enables higher state taxes and spending by offloading costs onto taxpayers in low-tax states . . . Now, for the first time, New York taxpayers are experiencing the full pain of high taxes and spending because they can’t write it all off.”
— “Why Is Sen. Schumer Suddenly Decrying High Tax Rates?”, Wayne Winegarden, Real Clear Markets, 9/5/19 |
“Some want to reverse this cap and force low tax states to again pay for big spending in California, New York, and Illinois. That would be a mistake. Taxpayers in high-tax states should demand that lawmakers reform anti-growth state tax codes and cut spending to make their economies more competitive.”
— “New Study: State and Local Tax Deduction ‘Makes it Rain’ in California, Paid for by Taxpayers in Low Tax States,” Wayne Winegarden, 8/15/19 |
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| “Congress lowered taxes for millions of hard-working Californians. It’s big spending state-lawmakers who raised taxes on Californians . . . Millions of Americans in every state benefited from the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act with a reduced tax burden . . . Only taxpayers in the super-rich highest tax bracket paid more.
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Preserve SALT Cap to Keep in Place
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| According to the PRI study “Making it Rain in California,” the SALT cap enabled $651.5 billion on special-interest state tax breaks to be reallocated into broad-based, marginal tax rate relief.
Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in business and economics, argues that “capping the SALT deduction helped set in place billions of dollars in broad-based tax relief for the entire nation.” “Relaxing or repealing it to fuel the unsustainable tax and spending demands of liberal politicians like Sen. Schumer in high-tax states,” Winegarden writes, “would be a great mistake and should be rejected.” |
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Been There, Done That on “Making it Rain”
