> Funny that it is the red states that tend to get more federal dollars returned/pumped into their states than they contribute. It's ridiculous to say the the blue states are stealing.

And the reason this is true is because states that receive more than they contribute are ones whose citizens make less money. It's like saying we should tax the poor guy a higher rate than the rich guy since the poor guy uses more public services.

> Republicans typically talking about being for smaller [Federal] government should like that the [blue] states are trying to solve the problems most important and local to them via their own means.

One could take that to mean that states ought not to need the SALT deduction subsidy to finance their state-level government.