\n\nWhat Democrats should be doing: shifting the burden of filing out tax paperwork to employers by converting all income taxes to payroll taxes:
\n\n\n\nA similar idea described in \u201cThe Games They Will Play,\u201d a paper \npublished in December by 13 tax experts, suggested states could replace \nincome taxes with a new payroll levy. States would collect the same \nrevenue, and employers would reduce wages so workers take home the same \namount.\u00a0
\n\nSuch a plan would require more effort to design and implement compared \nto accepting gifts in lieu of taxes, said David Kamin, a professor at \nNew York University School of Law. Still, a payroll tax would offer \ngreater tax savings to state residents by allowing non-itemizers to \nbenefit from the change. It could be harder for the federal government \nto undo than California\u2019s plan.\u00a0
\nWhat Democrats are doing: a massive giveaway to charter schools, enshrining the notion that public services should be funded on the basis of charity rather than tax collection:
\n\n\n\nIn California, Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Le\u00f3n plans to introduce\n legislation this week that would allow residents to donate to a state \nentity called the California Excellence Fund in lieu of paying taxes \u2014 a\n move intended to sidestep the new federal cap\u2026.
\n\nThe California bill builds on a nascent movement among states to provide\n full and partial tax credits in return for donations that fund tuition \nvouchers for private and religious schools. In a memo released in 2011, \nthe Internal Revenue Service gave its blessing for taxpayers to claim \nfederal deductions on those gifts, providing at least some basis for the\n idea that the strategy could work.\n\n
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the real Trump effect is the Democrats have to fight out the overlooked upstarts vs. coastal gentry fight entirely within their own party, without federal escape hatches
the sex stuff has been bad enough but wait til it gets to property