You'd Think Left Would Like Trump Tax Hikes on Coastal Rich

There was a time when the left might have cheered lowering taxes on the middle class and raising them on the rich. But not anymore. The 2017 income tax overhaul by the Trump administration imposed a limit of $10,000 on the deductibility of state and local taxes, it effectively raised the federal tax bill for a lot of high income people — a very small, very wealthy percentage of the U.S. population.