# How will small business owners and the professional class be affected by the tax bill

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**Created:** [December 29, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-small-business-owners-and-the-professional-class-be-affected-by-the-tax-bill/805493 "2017-12-29T03:23:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-will-small-business-owners-and-the-professional-class-be-affected-by-the-tax-bill/805493/1 "2017-12-29T03:23:37Z")

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Professional class = those with high paying graduate degrees. Physicians, dentists, lawyers, MBA types.

For those living in blue states how will someone earning 200k a year be affected? I don’t itemize, so I don’t know how the removal of the SALT deduction or mortgage deduction will hit people in places like NY, NJ, CA, etc. who earn a good income.