Again... What you
continue to do is to drag state and local taxes into an argument over
Federal taxation. I can't do one thing in the world over what people in NY decide regarding their taxes... that's entirely up to them. You can't do anything about what Alabama people do with their taxes.... No law that we can ever pass at the Federal level is going to change how states handle their own taxes or municipalities, etc.
So why do you want to muddy the argument with something that has nothing to do with Federal taxation? Surely, you must understand (if you're not a retard) that we can't "make up for" what states do at the federal level. Your state may have extremely high state and local sales taxes, property taxes, etc. My state may have no such taxes... so why should I be forced to pay more Federal tax to offset what your state does? If I have no political power to tell your state not to have high taxes but you want to tax me at the federal level because of that... this is called "taxation without representation" and it's unconstitutional.