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As a New Yorker and a Californian, I have a dog in the SALT race, but I can also be objective about it. The financial and moral argument for the SALT cap was pretty clear and I agreed with it, but I was sitting next to Pat Cadell at a David Horowitz Freedom Center Restoration Weekend panel when he blamed it for the 2018 midterm disaster, and I think he had a point.
The basic reality of representative government is that people vote their interests and they elect people who vote for their interests. It may be selfish and crooked in some ways, but it’s also the whole point of the system.
And it beats any other system.
So that means SALT Republicans are a pain, but they’re also why Republicans have a majority at all.
That said the more they wanted to raise the cap, the more obvious it was that this was benefiting an increasingly smaller and wealthier group. And that means Sen. Schumer’s attack on New York Republicans is hilarious when coming from a born-again class warrior.
“This so-called SALT deal is a humiliating failure for NY House Republicans,” Schumer wrote on X. “Donald Trump came to the Capitol to intimidate them and in less than 24 hours they have all bowed to their king. Their capitulation to Trump on SALT is a slap in the face to Long Island, the Hudson Valley, and hardworking, middle-class families across New York.”
The SALT deal is at $40K. How much did Schumer want for the sake of the “hardworking, middle-class families across New York”?
This isn’t so much class warfare as upper-class warfare.
Now there are scenarios where people making $150K are still hurt by the $40K cap, but overall pushing it higher was mostly going to benefit people making over $200K and more likely $300K. Living in high-tax and high cost of living states can make people earning that middle class, but it’s still well above what is considered middle class in much of the country.
Finally, Schumer did absolutely nothing to roll back the cap because it was never a priority for Democrats. And the ultimate blame for the high taxes doesn’t go to Republicans, but to New York Democrats and Democrats in other states. It’s not the fault of House Republicans that Democrats love taxes and it’s not the responsibility of the rest of the country to subsidize high tax areas.
Schumer is so far off base that he’s not only not in the same stadium, he’s in the next state over: The State of Confusion.
Schmucky Schemer. If any reptile deserves an assassin’s bullet, it’s him.
Suck my ass, you down voter. I truly hate scum like you. You’re an infection on the planet. You deserve to die slowly and painfully.
The SALT scam was a clever way the Democrats pulled the wool over the eyes of the voters. How many voters understand it?
I don’t understand it! Those guys are tricky. Fool you with bullshit while they fuck you up the ass.
I see we have a ball sucking chomo here.
SALT is a clever way to transfer tax revenue from the Federal Government to Democrat State Governments, that is the way I thought of it at the time it was enacted.
If they American people were actually made aware of what the State And Local Tax deduction actually meant , they’d realize it is a subsidy to high tax states Democrat malfeasance. As a personal disclaimer, I appreciated it while living in California with little possibility to slow Democrats tax enthusiasm, but I’m now a retiree living in Idaho. To say my tax situation has improved would be an understatement.
As usual Schumer is being a hypocrite. Since when have the democrats ever liked or did anything for the middle class? They hurl empty promises at the middle class while the real beneficiaries of democrat largess are the wealthy elites (aka, the donor class.)
To be honest, the same applies to the republicans but at least some of their largess does trickle down to the working class. The democrat largess that trickles down past the working. to the lower class in the form of food stamps, EBT cards and subsidized visits to Planned Genocide (aka, Planned Parenthood.)
By the way, given the types of people who visit those abortion slaughter houses, (i.e., “clinics”), I’m not all that opposed to abortion. I have no problems with society’s ratchets and psychotic liberals and progressives getting abortions. They’re doing us all a favor.