[9YearLurker]

Yep. Trump somehow got a free pass on this “reform” which has hurt many in the middle.

[kearnyirish2]

We’ll see if he gets that free pass in 2020; I don’t think it is a foregone conclusion that he’ll win (though I’d certainly prefer him to any Democrat). We’ll see what concrete accomplishments (not just words) he has by November 2020.

[Alberta's Child]

Trump has gotten a free pass on this (so far) because it was a tax reform bill passed by the Republicans in Congress. Trump himself never campaigned on these changes. He would have signed just about any tax reform bill Congress put on his desk.

The national GOP simply used this as an opportunity to screw a bunch of deep "blue" states. As one astute observer pointed out, there are six states that are screwed particular badly by this tax law -- California, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Illinois. These are the states affected most by the combination of two factors in our tax code that screw middle-class people: (1) the high cost of living pushes middle-class people into upper-income tax brackets, and (2) they have ridiculously high state and local taxes that now have deduction caps.

In a Senate where the Republicans only held a 51-49 majority, this tax bill wasn't killed on the spot because there wasn't a single Republican U.S. Senator among the twelve representing these six states.