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"