Controlling School, Municipal Taxes More Crucial Than SALT Deduction
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While bemoaning the $10,000 limit on the state and local taxes on his federal tax return, Mr. Shifren, in his guest column in the October 1-7 issue (“Jones is the One Candidate Who Can Restore the Full SALT Deduction”) seems content to absorb the increasing local tax burdens. School taxes are usually the largest component of those taxes and that cost keeps going up together with the expansion of administrative staffs without any demonstrable improvement of the classroom education, which seems preoccupied with pronouns and bathrooms instead of the Constitution.
Employment levels in the municipalities also increase without attempts to reduce expenses. Why not focus on reducing the local taxes rather than on their deductibility at the federal level?
Paul Jaffe
Chappaqua
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