TheDude
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Pesky facts.LOL! Then let those northeastern states lower their property taxes and their personal income taxes! The rest of the country is done with subsidizing their high taxes.
And of course the Fed's raising of interest rates has nothing to do with it, right? They've gone up by nearly 1 full percentage point in the last 18 months.
But of course your first and only reaction is that it must be all Trump's fault because he capped state-and-local-tax deductions at $10K.
"The rest of the country is done with subsidizing their high taxes."
I think you don't know what the phuck you're talking about.
AP FACT CHECK: Blue high-tax states fund red low-tax states
THE FACTS:
Connecticut residents paid an average of $15,643 per person in federal taxes in 2015, according to a report by the Rockefeller Institute of Government. Massachusetts paid $13,582 per person, New Jersey paid $13,137 and New York paid $12,820.
California residents paid an average of $10,510.
At the other end, Mississippi residents paid an average of $5,740 per person, while West Virginia paid $6,349, Kentucky paid $6,626 and South Carolina paid $6,665.
Low-tax red states also fare better when you take into account federal spending.
Mississippi received $2.13 for every tax dollar the state sent to Washington in 2015, according to the Rockefeller study. West Virginia received $2.07, Kentucky got $1.90 and South Carolina got $1.71.
Meanwhile, New Jersey received 74 cents in federal spending for tax every dollar the state sent to Washington. New York received 81 cents, Connecticut received 82 cents and Massachusetts received 83 cents."""""""""
AP FACT CHECK: Blue high-tax states fund red low-tax states
Further demonstrates how progressives are intellectually dishonest. At best they lack critical thought. The reason some states are a greater success than others has everything to do with climate. Progressives would have you believe "it's cuz they progressive". Dollars to donuts the "average tax payers" aren't the average at all. Or maybe I should ask, average of what?