@CTL
Your personal wealth does not interest me in the slightest, and I find your penchant for flaunting it distasteful, to say the least.
It is also irrelevant to the current conversation.
The fact that your state “sends more dollars to Washington in taxes than it receives back” is equally irrelevant.
Residents of your state and locality pay lower Federal taxes than do residents of my state and locality. This deduction subsidizes state expenditures which are paid for by state and local taxes, and disproportionally burdens my state for the Federal budget.
In other words, the SALT deduction enables you to pay for things with my money. Whether you personally benefit directly from these expenditures or not has no bearing on this fact.
I agree that too many loopholes exist in the tax code.