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The Case For (and Against) Killing the Mortgage Interest Deduction

The chairmen of the president's deficit commission skewered a number of sacred cows in their widely discussed, and widely criticized, report. But few ideas have received more outrage than the plan to limit the mortgage interest deduction -- the costliest tax giveaway in the United States. What is the mortgage interest deduction and why should we want to reduce it?

Here's the rule: Every year, most homeowners are still paying interest on their house. But the IRS helps them out by letting them keep an amount equal to their mortgage interest multiplied by their tax rate. This amount is "deducted" or subtracted from their taxable income, reducing their tax

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