No, I'm not.
With similar income and excluding SALT issues, unless your kids are above 17 but still counted on your taxes, you should pay the same or less in total tax as a percent of your income.
I posted previously that I'd reduced my SALT issues by selling my previous home, downsizing, cutting my property tax by more than 50% and getting myself under the cap.
It is an "anomaly" that those of us in high SALT states get pushed up a tax bracket at the Federal level.
I'm not a CPA, I cannot explain it the way my accountant and financial advisor can. Damn' sure wish I could, it would make this conversation a whole lot easier.
There most certainly is a day of reckoning for states like Illinois who are going to have to deal with the over-taxation we have in this corrupt state. Currently Governor McCheese (as I call him, find a picture of J.B. Pritzker and you'll see what I'm talking about) is trying a scheme to reduce property taxes while implementing a progressive income tax. That'll really screw people like me (high income earners, empty nester, no dependents other than myself.) They're trying to play a shell game here, most people aren't falling for it which is why Illinois is a net-outflow state. We're losing far more population than "gaining" and for damn' good reason.
That's Governor McCheese in the middle. Doesn't he look just like Mayor McCheese of McDonald's fame? I think he does.