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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDemocratic governors threaten legal action against Republican tax plan
https://thinkprogress.org/blue-states-challenge-republican-tax-plan-bc10df087477/Democratic governors threaten legal action against Republican tax plan
Governors like New York's Andrew Cuomo argue that the bill illegally harms blue states.
Natasha Geiling
Dec 31, 2017, 11:19 am
The Republican tax plan has been law for just over a week, but its already facing the threat of legal challenges from Democratic governors who claim that the bills disparate impact on red and blue states could be illegal.
On Thursday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told CNN that the bill amounted to pillaging from blue states in order to provide tax cuts for more conservative states.
This tax provision hits the blue states by eliminating the state and local tax deductibility and uses that money to finance the tax cut in the red states, Cuomo said.
The Republican tax plan eliminates deductions for state and local income and property taxes at $10,000, hitting areas with high property values and high income rates the hardest. Many of these places are located in states like California and New York, which have a history of resisting the Trump administrations agenda. Of the 12 Republican lawmakers who voted against the tax bill, seven are from California or New York.
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You want to hurt New York? You want to hurt California? Cuomo said on CNN. Theyre the economic engines.
Earlier in December, Cuomo along with California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) and New Jersey Gov.-elect Phil Murphy suggested that progressive states could seek legal recourse against the tax bill, but did not say exactly what that action might look like. In his interview with CNN, Cuomo suggested that the bill might be unconstitutional.
Norm Eisen, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former White House ethics czar, said on Twitter that the disparate treatment of pro GOP and anti-GOP States in the tax plan is so grotesque that there may well be a due process claim.
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Other legal experts have argued that the challenges would likely depend on states being able to show that the tax bill violates the protection of states rights under the U.S. Constitution.
States like California and New York have already been active in challenging the Trump administrations agenda through the courts, from filing lawsuits over the administrations attempts to undermine the Affordable Care Act to challenging rollbacks on environmental regulations.
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Democratic governors threaten legal action against Republican tax plan (Original Post)
babylonsister
Dec 2017
OP
As I recall, many GOP members made a point of letting the public know that this was punishment
OregonBlue
Dec 2017
#2
What do you think our 5-4 scotus will think ... 2016 was not the year for a protest vote because of
Fullduplexxx
Dec 2017
#5
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)1. A tax measure in California was overturned by the courts. I hope this one is.
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)2. As I recall, many GOP members made a point of letting the public know that this was punishment
of the Blue States. Both on TV and in tweets. Like Trump, they have actually given away their right to claim otherwise.
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)3. and actually most of blue states, not just Calif and NY,
are economic powerhouses...a clear shot across the bow of blue states and also pointing to discrepancies of senate seats (2 for sparsely populated states vs. 2 only for Calif and/or NY, states w/ multiples times population). Seems to be a discrepancy too for house of rep too.
Takket
(21,625 posts)4. And don't forget this is ON TOP OF
the fact that blue states ALREADY subsidize red states.
Fullduplexxx
(7,870 posts)5. What do you think our 5-4 scotus will think ... 2016 was not the year for a protest vote because of