For most of my life as a (now thank God ex-) Noo Yawkuh I accepted those miserably high local/state plus federal tax rates as at least helping to take care of society's needs and that at least I was lucky enough, struggling to survive as a normal middle-class person, not to require such assistance so I should not begrudge it to anyone who did.
I was intelligent, of course, in those days but I am much much smarter now.
For most of my life as a (now thank God ex-) Noo Yawkuh I accepted those miserably high local/state plus federal tax rates as at least helping to take care of society's needs and that at least I was lucky enough, struggling to survive as a normal middle-class person, not to require such assistance so I should not begrudge it to anyone who did.
I was intelligent, of course, in those days but I am much much smarter now.