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Nonsense!
I easily have 4 or 5 times the standard deduction.
The standard deduction is for lazy fools. (or the stingy that give little or nothing to Yehova)
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You do realize a personal anecdotal of one does not prove anything, right? Even per this article, those making over $200k/year (top 4% of households, or 2% of individuals) see an average SALT deduction of $6295 in taxes, which is about $18k pre tax at a blended marginal federal rate of say 35%. Given the standard deduction will go up by around $12k, all but the very top income combined with living in a very high state AND local and high mortgage will be hurt. Why should we be subsidizing those things in the first place?