I’m not saying move out to some small town with a population of 100. I’m saying there are three or four metros in the US that are among the most expensive in the world and unless your skill set is one that is highly local to one of those metros you don’t have a professional justification for being there.

“I’d argue that most jobs don’t have regional requirements”

Texas, New Hampshire, and Wyoming are all net payers when it comes to the federal coffers. Know what else they have in common? Some of the smallest tax burdens in the US.

Completely unrelated.

The people complaining about affordability in these coastal areas aren’t the ones with the specialized jobs that have real regional requirements.

“Why shouldn’t they each get the benefit of paying the tax on their income, rather than being added together and bumped into a higher marginal tax bracket?”

“OK, but saying “Parity” really just restated my question.”

Shorting everyone else doesn’t mean they spend less. It means they spend nine dollars when they should be spending eleven.

And you want these same people in a tax payer funder national healthcare system...

Some of these comments make it really obvious who is still being claimed as a dependent.

Equality is dividing the bill 330 million ways.

A calculator maybe? Provided some organization called the IRS? Online possibly?

It didn’t eliminate SALT. It capped it.

You live in a country where the top 25% of filers provide 86% of federal income tax revenue. You live in a country where the top 50% of filers provide 97% of federal income tax revenue. You already live in a country where half the population pays literally or virtually nothing as far as federal income taxes are…

“What more would you like to see to make it more fair for single taxpayers?”

“It really depends on where you live.”

Werd?

“It’s alarming when the union doesn’t act in its membership’s interest, however.”

America as some indispensable entity is blind nationalist bullshit.

You cannot have a functioning country in the long term where a quarter of the population contributes virtually everything and many among the other three fourths are constantly bitching about how the quarter that actually pays the bills doesn’t pay enough.