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NowISeetheLight

(3,941 posts)
10. Not exactly
Fri May 6, 2022, 03:23 PM
May 2022

I’m just saying why should my tax dollars go to support people who would discriminate against me and refuse to let me marry if I lived there. We sanction countries for political reasons. States like Florida threatened to stop payments to school systems who disagreed with them.

Rich people in New York pay very high taxes. I recall Trump yanked a property tax credit they used to get specifically calling them high tax and poorly run (the SALT exemption). If these states are willing to tax their citizens more for things like schools and services that is their right. I grew up in Minnesota which has excellent schools. Property taxes there were about 3x what they were when I lived in South Carolina.

Why should I pay high property taxes to fund my local schools and also pay taxes to fund schools in areas that don’t? It’s like me asking you to pay part of my car payment because I don’t want too. At the same time I’m going to criticize you for your high car payment and yell how irresponsible you are. But you still have to pay mine too.

https://smartasset.com/taxes/trumps-plan-to-eliminate-the-state-and-local-tax-deduction-explained

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