{"id":1285,"date":"2025-05-10T18:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T18:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/republican-agenda-hits-familiar-obstacle-state-and-local-taxes\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T18:37:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T18:37:30","slug":"republican-agenda-hits-familiar-obstacle-state-and-local-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/republican-agenda-hits-familiar-obstacle-state-and-local-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Agenda Hits Familiar Obstacle: State and Local Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gerhard Randers-Pehrson, an 81-year-old resident of Ossining, N.Y., believes the $10,000 cap should go up \u2014 but not too much. While Mr. Randers-Pehrson, a retired research scientist, said he paid $16,000 in state and local taxes last year, he does not expect to personally benefit from a higher cap. He would take the standard deduction instead of itemizing. But the issue still bothers him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we should punish areas that try to do right by the municipal services they provide,\u201d he said. His congressman, Representative Mike Lawler, a Republican and one of the holdouts on the issue, has proposed lifting the cap to $100,000 for individuals and $200,000 for married couples. Mr. Randers-Pehrson believes such an increase would be too high.<\/p>\n

Even among Republicans who want to raise the limit, agreeing on a demand has been a challenge.<\/p>\n

Representative Jeff Van Drew, Republican of New Jersey, has said that a cap around $30,000 or $40,000 would be acceptable, while a group of four New York Republicans put out a statement on Thursday calling a $30,000 cap \u201cinsulting.\u201d Representative Young Kim, Republican of California, recently floated a $62,000 deduction per individual. Representative Nicole Malliotakis, a New York Republican on the Ways and Means Committee, meanwhile, has suggested that Americans under a certain income limit should be able to take the full deduction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was always focused on people that I represent in Staten Island and Brooklyn, who mostly all make under $500,000,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

House Republican leaders remain optimistic they can thread the needle. Beyond SALT, they are also grappling with a last-minute push from Mr. Trump to raise taxes on the rich, though the president appeared to again back away from that idea in a social media post on Friday. \u201cRepublicans should probably not do it, but I\u2019m OK if they do!\u201d the president wrote.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gerhard Randers-Pehrson, an 81-year-old resident of Ossining, N.Y., believes the $10,000 cap should go up \u2014 but not too much. While Mr. Randers-Pehrson, a retired research scientist, said he paid $16,000 in state and local taxes last year, he does not expect to personally benefit from a higher cap. He would take the standard deduction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[738,977,976,980,978,975,979,941],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-agenda","tag-familiar","tag-hits","tag-local","tag-obstacle","tag-republican","tag-state","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}