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JustAnotherGen

(36,751 posts)
12. SALT Caps at $10K
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 08:39 AM
Jul 2

Every year since 2019 we've sent an additional 7-12 to the Fed.

Federal Payroll Taxes don't account for the 7-10K in property taxes, or the state income tax.

My working class constituents are paying 3-6K on April 15th.

For them, the trick is to file NJ first, receive their refund, then use that to pay all or part of their Fed. These are people bringing in 100-125 a year.

And that's not rich in NJ. We are home rule because the ConFeds give us a shit sandwich in funding. Schools, PD, FD, FD, Federal environmental regulations being met, water and sewer, roads, reticulating lights . . . We do it. We put the oxygen masks on ourselves.

Property Taxes in my borough for a 1930s 1300 sq foot home average $8K. 80% goes to schools.

We don't have "Christian Academies" (whites only) schools here. We make sure our children receive an excellent education.

We send a dollar to DC - we get back .75 cents.

And I don't want to hear the military base nonsense. Elizabeth port is why the roads are shit the closer you get to it. I don't mind paying more to Trenton to help my own in Elizabeth, Newark and Jersey City.

I do mind in Corpus Christi, Houston, and Louisiana.

They are a bunch of smarty pants maga Repubs - do it without my money dead beats!

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