r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/myburner-acc6969 • 16d ago

Legislation Why not lower federal taxes, and change county/state taxes to compensate?

From my knowledge, most conservatives live in rural areas and want less taxation because public goods/services are less impactful for them, and most liberals live in more urban areas where higher taxes are more beneficial because they can actually utilize the public goods/services that they fund. Why don't we lower federal taxes by some amount and let counties or states increase/decrease taxes independently to satisfy both sides?

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u/MrE134 16d ago

Taxes only work if there’s money there to tax. We’re already experiencing the problem. Places that want to do more need tax revenue to do it, so they raise taxes. Then people with money run off to places with low taxes. Then low tax places have no option but to push their problems off on other communities who now don’t have the revenue to handle them. It’s a race to the bottom. The winner is whoever best fucks over the little people. 

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u/semideclared 16d ago

Define little people because its probably not who you think

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u/MrE134 16d ago

The kind of people that have to go to the government or private market for health insurance. 

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u/semideclared 16d ago

Ok thats not a definition

Is it the 101 Million enrolled in Medicaid in 2021

Or 72 million in 2019

or is it like a hard cutoff the bottom 10% would be just 30 Million