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by Decade 1927 days ago
The mortgage interest deduction was an accidental side-effect of pro-business regulation, and it doesn’t advance any reasonable societal goals. It’s effectively a regressive tax break, the richer the beneficiary the larger the tax break, up to ordinary 7-digit millionaire.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/05/magazine/who-needs-the-mo...