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It's 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...
But the mortgage interest deduction has an even more powerful ally than the real estate industry--they have some liberal Democrats and members of Congress. When Ronald W. Reagan hinted during the 1984 campaign that just maybe the deduction could be reformed, Walter F. Mondale called the suggestion "the worst...
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...
Andrea A. Goldman '90, one of the panel membersand a co-director of Response, a campus rapehotline, blamed some cases of date rape on thesocial "ineptitude" of many Harvard students
If the Rainbow's food was not a crowdpleaser to some, its politics were, according to many voters questioned in an informal survey at the polls yesterday.