[Jim from C-Town]

Very few if any hard working Americans will see a tax increase. You would have to be a high earner in a high tax state that has a very large personal home mortgage to pay any additional federal taxes.

[AnAmericanMother]

. . . and even for those folks it's a blessing in disguise (some disguise!)

The state tax deduction has allowed high-tax states like Cali and NY to raise state taxes with impunity - because they could be hidden in the federal return. Now that will be out in the open and they'll have to explain to their constituents why they are bleeding them dry.

I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?

- Rudyard Kipling, "Epitaphs of the War"