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AP FACT CHECK: Blue high-tax states fund red low-tax states

Author:     STEPHEN OHLEMACHER
Source:     The Seattle Times/Associated Press
Publication Date:     December 9, 2017 at 6:09 am
 Link: AP FACT CHECK: Blue high-tax states fund red low-tax states
Stephan:   Here is further proof of the Theorem of Wellbeing, and my assertion that Republicans cannot govern, if by govern one means create a society that fosters well being, and the calibration to assess that is facts. And the facts are that the Democratic Blue value states underwrite the failure of the Republican Red value states. What is even more despicable is that the Republicans lie about this consistently and constantly. The reality is low taxes and no social support network, the political dogma to which Republicans pledge allegiance only benefits the rich. Why then do voters in the Red states continue to vote for their own degradation? Are they stupid? Are they brainwashed? Or is it something else more important than their own wellbeing?

Speaker Paul Ryan. In this Dec. 5, 2017, photo, House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Republican leaders have spent months promoting the myth that red low-tax states are subsidizing blue high-tax states because of the deduction for state and local taxes.
Credit: Toya Sarno Jordan/Getty

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders have spent months promoting the myth that red low-tax states are subsidizing blue high-tax states because of the deduction for state and local taxes.

An Associated Press Fact Check finds it’s actually the other way around. High-tax, traditionally Democratic states (blue), subsidize low-tax, traditionally Republican states (red) — in a big way.

Republicans are trying to eliminate the deduction as part of the sweeping tax package working its way through Congress. They added back a deduction for up to $10,000 in property taxes, in a concession to Republicans from high-tax states such as New York and New Jersey. California Republicans are pushing to extend the deduction to local income taxes, too.

It is true that taxpayers in high-tax […]

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