If you are poor your rates will rise from 10% to 12%, and if you live in a high tax state you will no longer be able to deduct the state taxes you pay. Most of the high tax states are blue states. There are definite winners and losers in this proposal.

And only rich people pay the death tax. My parents were told to see about setting up a trust to try to avoid some of these taxes, and all they did was waste money on attorney's fees. Despite owning a home in a high cost of living area they do not have enough in assets to make it worthwhile.