Posted on 07/18/2018 7:12:24 AM PDT by Hojczyk
To be fair, it’s not just New York that thinks their wealthiest taxpayers have a constitutional right to get reimbursed for the state’s high tax rates. Connecticut, New Jersey, and Maryland have joined the lawsuit filed by Andrew Cuomo and AG Barbara Underwood, announced yesterday morning. They want to undo the $10,000 cap on deductions for state and local taxes passed as part of the tax-reform bill in December, claiming that limiting such reimbursements violates the Constitution.
New York’s sovereignty is precisely the solution for this issue. Cuomo and the New York legislature can simply change their tax code to save their citizens the extra cost, which originates from the state of New York and not from Congress. They want the money without the political headache, and they want the federal judiciary to rescue them from the consequences of their high-tax policies.
This is just a threadbare attempt to shift the blame for those tax policies, and it’s doomed to failure. But it does raise the question, as Twitchy notes: Why are Democrats trying to get a tax cut for the rich?
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Cut your State Taxes you MORON.
This suit is a total waste of time, effort and TAXPAYERS’ money.....................IOW, a perfect Dem project..........
Cuomo. Another economics brain trust...
This is only a problem for rich New Yorkers.
Let them eat cake! ;-)
Tax Deductible Taxes , what a scam
I thought the ‘Rats want higher taxes.
The Bern wants to tax the rich ‘till there are no rich anymore.
Yes Red,
It is a waste of time and money.
However this slug Cuomo will shop for a homer judge who will comply.
It will be overturned upon appel, maybe to the Supremes. And that will take time.
The rest of the country does not have to subsidizes your profligate spending, a$$hole.
The lawsuit doesn’t pass the giggle test, which means at least two and probably four of the scotus SJWs will vote in favor of NY.
Odd how the lefts constitutional hand book reads nothing like the real one.
I left the state in 1980 and it is as dumb as ever..
What about the tax code unfairly targeting high income individuals and wage earners in general?
If this case works for high tax blue states, looks like the actual tax payers have a HUGE case.
To Hell with Cuomo and his ilk. Have him poop in one hand and demand in the other and see which one gets full. But be careful, when Cuomo’s hand gets full of poop, he will fling it, as would be his nature.
Wait! Rich Liberals should be ecstatic. They’re getting the opportunity to pay their “fair share” which is what the Democrats always say they want. What’s the problem?
Oh and this is of course just grandstanding and doomed to fail.
This NYSer to Cuomo: No. We. Don’t.
Cuomo, I want MY money back, you expletive-deleted, not some other poor SOB’s. Unlike you, I am NOT a THIEF.
But meanwhile the interest, penalties and fines will continue to accrue.
Not all of it.
Why?, because THIER ox is being gored.
Funny thing is these are the people that think they are our “betters”. Dumb as a bag of hammers.
And what clause of the Constitution guarantees that?
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