State and Local Taxes (SALT)

John Maynard Keynes Resides Inside Right-of-Center SALT Critics

West Virginia must be rich, right? All that federal money that flows there year after year. Hopefully readers see the obvious flaw, or contradiction.  Government spending saps economic growth, by its very description. Precisely because it signals the central planning of market goods, services and labor by politicians, it’s economically harmful. Only an economist […]

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SALT Shrinkage Is Bad for Red State Taxpayers Too

People in Texas pay taxes too. So do workers in Florida, Tennessee and other states that don’t impose an income tax. This has seemingly been forgotten in the ongoing debate about state and local taxes (SALT), and the deduction of those payments against federal taxes paid. It’s a reminder that when the Tax Cuts

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