No, they don't. A state tax board can't dictate deductions on what you owe to the IRS. Any deductions on state level taxes are dictated by the IRS. Whoever told you that is a liar, an idiot, or both. I suspect both, because there is no intellectual validity to reactionary ideology and all of its luminaries are grifters.
Here is a chart detailing what states receive in return for every tax dollar they send to the federal government. See if you can spot a pattern starting with $1.00+ received.
I'm sorry that reality doesn't match your warped and angry feelings toward it. This is a problem reactionaries struggle with every day.
Wulfschilde wrote:The truth is that economics are not just your paper money. None of these large cities are self-sustaining, they are completely reliant on imports. If there was any sort of breakdown in economic exchange the producers would suddenly start price gouging on necessary goods like food, they also own all of the guns, what the fuck are blue states supposed to do? All of their upsides exist only on paper, you'd burn everything down and start eating each other in a month.
Oh no. Debt. Let's change everything and become more like red states with less healthy populations, shorter lifespans, and greater levels of poverty. We need to do this quick, because debt is a thing in my head that I picture as a black square that says "Debt (bad thing)" due to my complete financial ignorance.
Also congratulations on figuring out, in the dumbest way possible, that large cities historically are and were trading hubs and therefore importers of goods. With a nice sprinkling of chud revolution murder fantasy on top of it. The laughable idea that all of the people who cities import from, meaning buy goods from, will just kill their customers out of spite is lol.
The fact of the matter is that reactionary ideology doesn't work and produces incredibly terrible outcomes for its citizens. But the idiots who buy into it are distracted by directing their anger at those terrible city folk (who they are mutually dependent upon) and alarmist debt arguments with no intellectual basis.
Of course, they are happy to ignore how the debt has ballooned under every modern GOP president. For some magical reason these arguments suddenly stop when a Republican is in power. It's almost as if there is no coherent ideology there.
Weak talking point. Red states are more likely to have balanced budgets whereas blue states have historical levels of debt. What are you suggesting, that blue states would stop donating money federally? The more solvent would come out on top in such a case even if it did happen.
No, and this was a moronic conclusion to come to.