Wonderfully written and well articulated position.  I would go as far to say that this is not an opinion, but a factual analysis of principles on which our country was built.  It is simple, if the current administration is insistent on ending the deduction, than the federal government needs to fill the gaps of essential services that will be cut when states/local governments reduce taxes to compensate for impending loss.  However, this will not occur and we will be further left with a decaying public education system and infrastructure.  While, as Mr. Pattison pointed out, this is not a red state blue state issue, I will note that the blue states with the highest property taxes also have the highest performing school systems.