This will only be temporary for most of them, though. These people pay accountants to figure out to get around these taxes, even if it means setting up a phony "permanent residence" in a state with no income tax.
No they didn’t. If they paid $1 million in states taxes and owed $2 million in Fed tax, they were able to deduct the $1 million they paid to the state, and thus paid only $1 million of their fed tax.
Now they have to pay their $1 million in state tax, and the whole $2 million they must pay now.
That is a total of $2 million before the new tax law, compared to $3 million they pay under the new tax law.
How is that the same?