“You propose using the tax code for social engineering, denying some deductions which benefit blue states, but keeping those which potentially could harm Red states if they are lost.”
I propose getting something done vs getting nothing done.
I do not “propose” using the tax code for social engineering. It is already there and no one in Congress, not even any Conservatives are proposing scrapping the whole thing for my ideal of a flat tax everyone would pay with zero deductions, exemptions, exclusions or credits.
So, yes, in the absence of any possibility of my ideal being adopted, I propose winning SOME battles on SALT, since trying to win the whole war on SALT is likely to lose enough votes to pass any tax changes at all.
It is not that the “property tax” is more Conservative. It is in fact more neutral, but the high income & sales tax states ARE mostly “progressive states”, while even more Conservative states have the property tax. Yes that’s “political. Well politics is how legislation is done, and winning some battle and getting something done is always politically better than batting zero.
“and winning some battle and getting something done is always politically better than batting zero.”
I guess that depends on whether you own taxes are going up, and by how much.