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By that reasoning one should be able to write off federal taxes off of their federal taxes.

Maybe off of your state taxes I think makes more sense.

In some places, such as New York city, there's also a city income tax. Do the states with such cities allow the writing off of the local tax off of the state tax?

You can not deduct NYC income tax on your NY State income tax return. (I know this because I'm a NYC resident.)

When you purchase something at a store in California is the city sales tax calculated on the pretax price of the item or post state and county tax?

If you look at other forms of compound tax rates you'll see the same pattern AFAIK.

> It feels unfair to be forced to pay the federal government taxes on money you’ve never seen.

You see it in the state in local government programs that were made possible by those you voted for to represent you.

'It feels unfair' can describe myriad aspects of our tax system.