You can say that, but no, it's for certain parts of those states, and middle class for those parts of California and New York is de facto rich for most of the c

You can say that, but no, it's for certain parts of those states, and middle class for those parts of California and New York is de facto rich for most of the country. I say this as someone who would actually benefit from the deduction. Do I swim in my Scrooge McDuck coin vault every evening? No. But I'm not going to pretend that I'm not well-off.