re: Removing state and local tax deduction: A left jab at liberals?

I have always been a fan of 'ZERO DEDUCTIONS" = but combined with sane tax rate structures and a requirement to REDUCE SPENDING as the FIRST RESPONSE to budgetary problems.

Only existential emergencies should even be considered for unfunded expenditures.

NO SOCIETAL EXPERIMENTATION in any tax policy.

Leave all charity to private individuals/organizations that receive no tax incentive to "do what their hearts tell them to do."

If a person doesn't want to work, he needs to find someone who sympathizes with his plight to help him survive. If he cannot find someone who will take from their own pocket to assist him, then I don't care if he starves himself to death.

I exempt from all my statements, now and forevermore, true emergency situations on a temporary basis as a public health issue.

I do not exempt generational dysfunction from this draconian concept. If a culture wants to become 'on the edge' or lazy or disrespectful or violent, or unproductive, they need to find themselves a sponsor who can provide their sustenance out of personal sympathy with their plight or agreement with their objectives. If they cannot sustain themselves, or find someone to support them in their culture, then that culture should be allowed to die out from natural selection. Let the laws of nature determine the way cultures 'progress.'