What will bite you, Louis, Sherrel and others in high tax states is the reduction or elimination of the SALT deduction. I and all who I polled live in Texas where there is no state or city income tax. Otherwise I agree regarding the underachievers et al. See rant below.
While we're discussing taxes, let me relate one "free-loader" that my wife prepared taxes for yesterday. This single mother of four worked four months and earned $12,000 last year and had $175 withheld. She could have worked all year since her mother who lived in her house, cared for her kids, but admitted to my wife that the 12K was the limit before they started cutting her benefits. Now that the tax return is finished, she is getting a check for $7600 from you and me. Call it laziness, gaming the system or all of the above, it just isn't right. If that lady worked 12 months, she would have earned over $36,000, well above poverty level; and well above the $19,600 that she will actually earn, and probably still wouldn't have to pay taxes. My wife hates doing these types of returns.