Frankly, the mortgage interest deduction never made sense...

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Post #229,296 by a6l6e6x 10/12/05 12:21:43 PM Reply	Frankly, the mortgage interest deduction never made sense... to me anyway. It only makes sense to the real estate peddlers who got it into tax law to begin with. No other government in the world I know of does this. If the government wants to help out with housing, increase the personal exemptions. Disclosure: My mortgage has been paid off since 1992. Alex The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #229,298 by jbrabeck 10/12/05 12:41:38 PM Reply	And mine has another 20+ years to go... :-( A good friend will come and bail you out of jail ... but, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damn...that was fun!"
Post #229,300 by boxley 10/12/05 12:43:33 PM Reply	29.5 more to go here, I just rent from the bank the only difference being they dont give a rats ass how I keep it up. thanx, bill "the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #229,329 by mmoffitt 10/12/05 2:46:05 PM Reply	Down to less than 8 for me. :0) bcnu, Mikem It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell

It was only a matter of time - (dmcarls) - (25) - Oct. 12, 2005, 10:00:12 AM EDT

If I wanted to remove all health care benefits for Americans - (boxley) - Oct. 12, 2005, 10:28:42 AM EDT

Or course, the single largest deduction most people have - (drewk) - Oct. 12, 2005, 10:40:38 AM EDT

Of course the cap gains will be spared - (bepatient) - (1) - Oct. 12, 2005, 11:04:44 AM EDT

Screw how much argument there is - (drewk) - Oct. 12, 2005, 11:15:22 AM EDT

Sounds typically Bush - (JayMehaffey) - (1) - Oct. 12, 2005, 11:22:11 AM EDT

the fair tax study came to 23-28%, no exemtions allowed - (boxley) - Oct. 12, 2005, 11:51:55 AM EDT

Not all that bad, but not all that good. - (admin) - (14) - Oct. 12, 2005, 12:08:24 PM EDT

Oh, a cap - (drewk) - Oct. 12, 2005, 12:13:13 PM EDT

In other words... - (ben_tilly) - (8) - Oct. 12, 2005, 01:15:33 PM EDT

Why? - (drewk) - (7) - Oct. 12, 2005, 01:37:30 PM EDT

'Cause a big house in Oklahoma . . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (6) - Oct. 12, 2005, 01:45:56 PM EDT

Odd bit of facts there - (drewk) - (4) - Oct. 12, 2005, 02:02:20 PM EDT

Their money is locked up in Trusts, or something. - (Another Scott) - Oct. 12, 2005, 02:16:46 PM EDT

Sorry, Democrats are the party of the wealthy - (tonytib) - (1) - Oct. 12, 2005, 04:08:29 PM EDT

s/of/with - (Silverlock) - Oct. 12, 2005, 04:11:16 PM EDT

Not quite... - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 12, 2005, 05:16:10 PM EDT

s/one in San Francisco/a small one in San Francisco/ -NT - (ben_tilly) - Oct. 12, 2005, 05:12:43 PM EDT

Huh? - (tuberculosis) - (3) - Oct. 20, 2005, 04:47:38 PM EDT

Like I said... - (admin) - (2) - Oct. 20, 2005, 06:09:16 PM EDT

Around here, $360K won't even buy a condo -NT - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Oct. 20, 2005, 06:26:23 PM EDT

In surrounding area of new job - (bepatient) - Oct. 20, 2005, 06:54:04 PM EDT

Frankly, the mortgage interest deduction never made sense... - (a6l6e6x) - (3) - Oct. 12, 2005, 12:21:43 PM EDT

And mine has another 20+ years to go... :-( -NT - (jbrabeck) - (2) - Oct. 12, 2005, 12:41:38 PM EDT

29.5 more to go here, I just rent from the bank - (boxley) - Oct. 12, 2005, 12:43:33 PM EDT

Down to less than 8 for me. :0) -NT - (mmoffitt) - Oct. 12, 2005, 02:46:05 PM EDT

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