Word: home
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast, UConn, playing its final home match of the year in front of a sizeable crowd, served well and frustrated the Crimson hitters with a superb blocking game...
...your parents own a home, chances are almost one in two that they benefit from the most expensive welfare program in the country. It costs more than Medicaid. It costs more than unemployment compensation. It costs three times as much as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), the program commonly known as "welfare...
...refer to the home mortgage interest deduction, the cornerstone of America's gargantuan, secret welfare state for the middle class...
...secret" because the cost is hidden in the tax code. Beneficiaries of the mortgage interest deduction don't receive a government check in the mail. They simply write down on their tax returns the amount of interest they paid on their home mortgage, and thereby avoid a substantial part of their income tax bill...
...very neat, very simple and very expensive. The mortgage interest deduction will cost the federal government some $32.2 billion this year, plus another $10.4 billion for home-owner property tax deductions. Although no checks are written, this money constitutes a huge subsidy--pure and simple--to homebuyers. When the government forgives part of your tax liability, it has exactly the same effect as sending you a welfare check...