Rep. Dave Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, last week unveiled a plan to “improve” the tax code. He proposed to lower the tax rate by eliminating certain deductions, among them the one for state and local taxes.
Why target this particular deduction? He said, “This deduction redistributes wealth to big-government, high-tax states from small-government, low tax states.” Blue states, like New York, California, and Massachusetts, try to help their poorest and most vulnerable citizens, and they tend to have higher taxes. Red states, like Texas and Mississippi, tend to be low tax states, because they have no safety nets, lousy health care, terrible prisons, and crappy educational systems.
Republicans not only want the federal government to end social programs, but they also want the states to do so as well. What miserable people they are.
By the way, Camp’s plan would also lower the corporate rate from 35% to 25%.
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