In Targeting State Tax Deduction, Republicans Embrace Myth

Recently I wrote in these pages explaining why elimination of the state tax deduction, which seems to have wide support among conservatives, is neither a good, just, nor conservative idea. My argument rested primarily on the bedrock premise that it is fundamentally unjust for a citizen to be taxed by the federal government on income already taxed away by that citizen's state government. This fundamental principle about the relationship between the citizen and his state and federal governments, however, seems to ring hollow to many today who are more concerned about other considerations which I believe are, at least in