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Main Idea: criticize current mortage tax deduction policy.
Beneath the surface: disproportionately benefit the wealthy and create perverse incentives and market distortions, plainly bad for America.
Breakdown-
1. Good for rich: since directly from your income, those that benefit most are those with the most income. Very poor-cannot afford so they don't benefit; poor benefit very little. But the wealthy receive huge tax breaks.
2. Perverse incentives: high income earners are then encouraged to buy ever more expensive mansions anf borrow more money.
Rational: to eliminate the mortage tax deduction.
Solution: institute a Housing Tax Credit - cost neutral, take average cost per family of the current and give that amount as a tax credit to any family or individual, standard credit, receive same nominal incentives regardless of income.
Impact: 1. encourage poor to buy a home; 2. waste less taxpayer money; 3. spur homeownership among lower-income families (help housing crisis)
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