I understand your position contra double taxation, so why don't you apply it to equally hard-working people who, through loss of the state and local deductions from federal income tax, would be taxed doubly on those earnings? Maybe you think your wealth makes you special. I don't think it makes you special, I think it just makes you wealthy; and the people who own this nation, should pay for it, not just collect toll fees from the rest of us for taking up space and breathing the free air of Mother Earth. By the way., my income is median, and my wealth is less than a million, and the loss of the state income tax deduction would cost me several thousand a year. And I have worked all my life.