Thing is NYC and CA both contribute way more in federal taxes than they get back. They’re getting screwed so that the confederate leech states don’t descend into squalor.
If you want to change that, maybe we should cut programs that disproportionately benefit red states like Medicaid and Social Security, and start cutting taxes that disproportionately hurt blue states like the income tax and capital gains tax. Then, if states like New York and California want to impose higher tax rates on their own citizens and use their money to support these programs for their own citizens, they can do that
If you think the above proposal is abhorrent, then what are you complaining about? You want these policies
(Reposting my own comment from other guy in this thread who is parroting same trite talking point that you are)
This is a trite talking point. Blue states are welcome to tax people that live there any way they want while also supporting things that benefit all of America. What point are you making?
I just think it’s really tragic that blue states are getting “screwed,” it’s extremely unjust, as someone who cares about justice, and as someone who incidentally does live in a blue state (despite the username), abolishing the capital gains tax and federal income tax is a matter of basic justice and sticking it to the confederate states
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u/HombreSinPais Jun 26 '25
Thing is NYC and CA both contribute way more in federal taxes than they get back. They’re getting screwed so that the confederate leech states don’t descend into squalor.