>>>Any stats you can point me to for that? And last time I checked CA was part of the USA.
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>OK, lets take a specific look at the GOP Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
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>The SALT rule used to allow people paying local tax to deduct it from their federal tax. That's a truism you can confirm easily.
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>The GOP Tax Cuts and Jobs Act caps SALT deductions at $10K. Also a truism you can confirm. But it does a few other things too:
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>This Act caps mortgage interest deductions to interest on $750K that used to be $1M. Is that policy better for the rich or the poor, btw?
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>It almost doubled the standard deduction to $12K for individuals, $24K for couples and $18K for heads of households. Do you think that'll be felt more by the rich or the poor?
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>It also increases the child credit from $1K to $2K and if after the standard deduction this pushes you into tax credit, the IRS now will cut you a refund check which was not refundable previously. Is that better for the rich or the poor?
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>But this will please you: the Estate Tax cutoff increased from $5.xM to $11.xM which definitely favors the rich at face value- though it also reduces the incentive to jiggle affairs to avoid tax altogether.

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