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To: RooRoobird20

Reuters knows the answer! but there’s a “but” at the end:

21 Dec: Reuters: U.S. tax bill may face lawsuits with long odds but political payoffs
by Jan Wolfe
Democratic-leaning states may take legal action to challenge the cap on deductions of state and local taxes under the sweeping overhaul of the U.S. tax code, and even though such lawsuits would face long odds they could help galvanize Democrats for next year’s mid-term election...

Some political strategists see a win for Democrats regardless of how courts ultimately rule, saying that lawsuits could be used to keep the issue front and center for voters already largely disenchanted with the Republican party...

William O‘Reilly, a conservative political consultant in New York, said the SALT deduction issue would likely add to Republicans’ “suburbia problem” among college-educated voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
“They already had one because of this president’s style,” O‘Reilly said...

But some legal experts noted that the state’s rights argument is more typically a conservative position. Using it to challenge the SALT provision could be a move that Democratic governors come to regret in the future, said Daniel Hemel, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
“The progressive agenda depends on the federal government being able to raise revenue and the Supreme Court not getting in the way of that,” Hemel said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-lawsuits/u-s-tax-bill-may-face-lawsuits-with-long-odds-but-political-payoffs-idUSKBN1EF01J


22 posted on 12/20/2017 5:33:13 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

Not surprised. These are all blue state/blue district @sshats.

Let the pigs squeal. The vast majority of the states don’t care if the Rat tard high SALT states are upset. In fact, I think the low SALT states are laughing at the high SALT states and are enjoying the schadenfreude.


37 posted on 12/20/2017 7:02:13 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.")
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