Blue Cap

Poor people shouldn't have to subisidze rich peoples' pet programs:

Prior to the SALT cap, lefty elites who lived in lefty, elitist blue states could vote for every lavish, socialist policy they favored to be enacted by their local and/or state governments. Naturally, this drove up state and local taxes — income, sales, and property — to obscene levels. But the wealthy leftists in these places didn't have to worry about that — they could go ahead and deduct the unlimited amount of state and local taxes they paid from their income when they filed their federal taxes. As an example, if a liberal in New York or California earned $200,000 and paid $35,000 of that in state and local taxes, she could adjust her gross income to $175,000 when she calculated her federal tax bill, which would then be based on that lower amount. Then she could enjoy life in her blue state of fully subsidized illegal alien families sopping up public resources, trash picked up and hauled to the dump for her, six months of paid maternity/paternity leave, electric buses, fancy bike paths no one will use, and every other feel-good liberal public-money suck you can think of. So what if the pregnant waitress in Mississippi and the HVAC technician in Alabama have to make up the difference when they pay their federal taxes? You see, every tax dollar liberals pay to fund their blue state and town's extravagant social spending reduces the amount of taxes they pay to the federal government. Thus, people who are smart enough to live in low-tax states precisely because they don't believe in lavish, expensive public programs wind up paying a higher rate of federal tax because they don't have hefty state and local taxes to deduct from their income when calculating what they pay to Uncle Sam.

You're still paying for their mistakes...