We are not rich by most people's standards but we do pay nearly $20,000 a year in state and local taxes. It is cute that you do not think that we have been feeling the “weight of them”. This part of the federal tax reform, making us pay out thousands of dollars in income tax on money we have paid out in taxes has hurt us a lot and is forcing us to sell a house and move from the state we were born in.
And we have no control over the millions of people from places like California who moved into the Seattle area and started voting themselves increased government benefits. Thanks for your concern. But don't worry Sleepy Joe has plans to ship a few million "immigrants" to your state who will do the same thing.
“We are not rich by most people’s standards but we do pay nearly $20,000 a year in state and local taxes.”
Being from the People’s Republic of Californistan, I can sympathize. However, your complaint should not be about losing the ability to write off those taxes on your federal income tax; it should be about your local and state officials imposing such high taxes on you in the first place. All the SALT deduction does is allow the high-tax states to spread the cost of their tax policies to the residents of low-tax states who have no say, nor receive any benefit from, those policies.
Perhaps if enough people in Washington and California and other such states get tired of carrying that high tax burden themselves, they might actually vote in different leaders. The other option is to move to a state with lower taxes, as you apparently are doing and as I will be doing soon as well. If enough productive taxpaying citizens abandon these high-tax states, they will not have enough taxes to continue to support these programs and might actually have to start cutting taxes and programs to keep afloat...
I live in MA. Another state where liberals like to tax us to death.
You’re doing the right thing in getting the hell out.