Although state income/capital tax is not deductible right now, after the $10,000 cap, you can still lower your AGI to zero or negative from the usual concoctions, which leaves nothing to tax, that way.
There are no usual concoctions that will get a normal high-income wage-earner to zero. If you have an unusual situation or are retired that's a separate issue, but even then it's not as easy as people make it sound.
Right, no use in talking about it, just let ProPublica “leak” tax techniques two decades late, per usual
Wage earners do have the worst circumstance. The slowest and highest taxed way of getting money and it has a general ceiling. And they don’t have access to half of their earned capital that year to even attempt doing anything with it, Yuck. There is still a lot they can do.
