Red Staters Should Love Trump's Pro-Growth SALT Revival

It wasn’t long after Donald Trump’s recent proposal to reverse his $10,000 cap on the State and Local Tax deduction (otherwise known as SALT) that critics on his right flank criticized the move. Supposedly past deductibility existed as a subsidy of blue states by red states, plus return of the deduction would allow high-spending and high-tax blue states to continue each with renewed vigor.

 

Both critiques missed the mark. Red states should be most in favor of Trump’s pro-growth desire to revive SALT.