Today, I'd like to do something I can't remember having done before: offer specific suggestions about how you might pay less in federal income tax.
I'm doing this because one of these suggestions might help minimize the pain you could suffer from the Republican tax plan — I won't call it "tax reform" — that lavishes tax cuts on corporations, real estate operators and some business owners and helps pay for this largesse by limiting state and local tax deductions to $10,000. That limit is a serious setback for many of us who live in high-tax, high-house-value areas — which, not coincidentally, tend to vote Democratic.
