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by quadrangle 3439 days ago
Got it, of course! Capitalized could be a formal tax term in this case, but it was just meant in terms of actual plain capitalization generally.

Yeah, mortgage tax deduction, like all incentives that encourage borrowing more money, ends up being a transfer of wealth from new homebuyers to whoever had owned property outright (whether older long-term homeowners or developers or real estate investors).

Very important point.