Not trying to be political with my comment but I also own a home and claim more than the standard deduction and got crushed in taxes this year compared to last.

Not trying to be political with my comment but I also own a home and claim more than the standard deduction and got crushed in taxes this year compared to last. Something changed, and at the end, TurboTax said I owed a lot more this year than last and my income was relatively unchanged. That was a shock and now I'm preparing to tighten the belt for the rest of the year. I make substantially more than the Average American (most engineers do) and I paid a ton of taxes last year, I didn't expect to be saddled with a ton more at filing time.