“without taxpayers having parts of their income taxed twice”
Now that’s a blatant lie!
Here’s how income IS taxed twice: the federal tax is a percentage of your gross. the state tax is a percentage of that SAME F*CKING GROSS! You don’t get that gross! It was reduced by taxes. The state tells you that it’s taking, for example, 7% of your gross. But you didn’t see that gross. The f*cking federal government took its cut! The “7%” is more than 7%! Your gross is being taxed twice.
F*CK the left.
The other idea, pioneered by a$$hole Dean Baker is even worse! The fool proposes to tax the employer on wages paid to employees. 1. That would be a deduction for the employer. 2. the employer would be paying the tax and would just reduce wages by an equivalent amount, or not, and go out of business. If the employee gets a lower wage, he is STILL paying the f*cking money!. I swear, the biggest idots are economists!
Obviously you are correct here. But there is the other option which is also bad. Businesses will have to raise their prices to cover the new cost of doing business (taxes). This will increase the cost of goods and services provided in their state and abroad (nationally and internationally). In the home state, the consumer pays the higher price and thus the tax increase (like you said, still no change just moving the pieces).
I think it would motivate companies to seek new homes. Companies leave, tax base shrinks, jobs go away, ......
You forgot to add that if you get a state refund or a federal refund the state will want their share of the federal refund and the feds will want their share of the state refund.