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This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague Elizabeth Peake of the Hill and Fox News about salt, state and local taxes.

This applies most definitely to the big blue states that are heavily

taxed. I've lived in several of them in my life and do now. And the heavy tax is not shared

across the country. There are states with no state taxes. There are states

with very light state taxes. The case is made that in order to provide the salt, Congress must

borrow from those who do not charge taxes. In other words, some states get the honor of

paying for the states that are heavily in debt and overtax

or tax heavily.

The usual suspects, New York, Illinois, California, dominantly Democratic vote in the electoral

college.

And here, Liz explains the controversy in the Republican House and the Republican Senate

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