About gold plated services. That’s not where most of the SALT goes. For instance, when I first moved into my condo complex we had a trash contractor, and paid that through our monthly maintenance. After a few years the town said they’d be willing to come into our complex, so we dropped the contractor and our maintenance went down. It was replaced by a quarterly fee from the town, along with my water bill. It was never tax deductible.

States that pay more of their own freight require less from the feds. It is pretty clear from the attached. SALT is obviously not the only determining factor, but it is one of the more significant.