Kudos for AOC for pointing out how regressive such a step would be.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp
Kudos for AOC for pointing out how regressive such a step would be.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...?ocid=msedgntp
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
How absurd that restoration of SALT limits and expansion of social programs were mentioned as priorities, but roads, bridges, broadband, power grid, ports, shipyards, and Flint never were. The Democratic party at it's best, wrapping crap in butcher paper and calling it steak.
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Tax breaks for the rich.
Middle class Californians will be able to sell their house for 3x the value it would have in almost any other state. Many of them will retire by doing just that, then moving to a less screwed up state, buying at depressed prices, and telling the locals how they used to do things in the place they fled. SALT caps were basically a way for those other states to finance the bloated, real estate driven, California/Acela economy. The solution for those middle class Californians is to fix their state government.
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Last edited by nsacpi; 04-15-2021 at 10:36 AM.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
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Btw, I want to note that I'm strongly in favor of the redistribution that takes place from rich blue states to the rest of the country. Which is why I oppose restoring the SALT deductions. Restoring them would also violate one of the maxims of good public finance policy: broaden the base and minimize the rates.
Last edited by nsacpi; 04-15-2021 at 12:31 PM.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
Do you realize if you don’t own a home in California it costs 3x as much as it would in any other state? BTW, the cost of living is inflated because of out of state younger folks who come here to work our high paying jobs. (This isn’t a problem, but let’s stop acting like blue state folk are a gang of pillaging pirates).
I get the concern with SALT deductions. I am not arguing it’s merits only that the people most hurt by it’s repeal are the middle class.
Jaw (04-16-2021)
Seriously though, the solution is to do something about the supply of affordable housing. But that would piss off people who are already sitting on all that valuable real estate.
I have a friend (an MD) who moved from Indiana to San Francisco about ten years ago. He was shocked at the cost of housing. Had to adjust his expectations down in a hurry.
Last edited by nsacpi; 04-15-2021 at 01:15 PM.
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
I do. The same friend I mentioned above moved to Georgia a few years ago for that reason.
Your state government sucks. You have a painful combination of Hollywood and Silicone Valley providing absurd incomes to people with little connection to reality. Great weather. Beautiful geography. A culture that pretends to be eco conscious while many live in mansions with swimming pools in the middle of a desert and fret about suburban sprawl.
There isn't an easy answer. Maybe continue to jack up taxes on 7 figure incomes while getting some of the loonies out of state government. The problem with that is that so much of your population has become loonie in it's own right. Have you thought of moving to Arizona?
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Just about any state or country would kill to have that painful combination. But you also have a point. States/countries that are "blessed" with either amazing natural resources or world-leading industries will often neglect good policy because they can get away with it. The rest of the world will always be coming to visit and to buy their products. There is a whole economics literature (google Dutch Disease) about this. This literature has been elaborated mostly in conjunction with economies blessed with natural resources (oil being the big one), but it applies to other golden geese (Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Hollywood).
"I am a victim, I will tell you. I am a victim."
"I am your retribution."
There is something sort of ridiculous that someone in the middle class in California is required to pay a higher federal tax rate than a middle class person in Wyoming.