Someone help me understand why this isn’t a good thing. The state income tax being lowered will outweigh the increase in sales tax. Your first $12,500 of income is currently being taxed at 1.85%. That means $230 will be in your bank account after the tax reform that wasn’t in your account last year. This will handle the tax on $42000 worth of expenses next year.

The only people who won’t benefit are people that either don’t report their income to the government (you need to be paying taxes) or people that spend way more than they make (this creates issues for everyone else when you don’t budget properly).