True, too...but we were talking individuals...it has seemed to slow the movement of corporations and jobs overseas and even spurred some direct US job growth (whether the tax cuts or deregulation is the bigger contributor, who knows), so in the overall sense, it seems to be a winner, even if not the expected direct winner to most people's individual pockets...
I expect when I do taxes next weekend to break pretty close to even, since my withholding already reflected the 3% tax decrease - it made for a better year with higher income, but I know my normal "book a vacation" refund money is now gonna have to be saved for 12 months vs windfalling on one day, since I expect not to receive one this year
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