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The mortgage interest deduction is about the most inefficient means imaginable for chaneling housing assistance to the needy. It is far less efficient, for example, than direct subsidies. Yet it was these subsidies that suffered more than any other program from Reagan's budget-cutting axe. In 1981, the federal...
Every attempt to introduce some measure of fairness into the deduction has met with protests about the "sanctity of home ownership." Mondale went so far as to call the mortgage interest deduction "the only deduction that is in the tax law that does any good at all for the average...
In addition to the flaws in the University'sprocedures for helping victims, the problem isalso increased by the fact that Harvard studentsare naive about rape on campus, said Liz M. Clyma'90, who attended the seminar.
But residents said that, more than any other issue, Proposition 1-2-3 drove them to the polls--leading to the highest turnout in six years, with about 27,300 residents, or 57 percent of those registered, voting.
Among Harvard students and faculty, there was little consensus about the ballot referendum.