Feeding The Beast: Why Trump and Congress Should Leave The Mortgage Interest Deduction Alone

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President Trump and Congress are once again tinkering with the US tax code (rather than just trashing the entire thing and creating something simple like a flat-tax system). There will always be winners and losers when the tax code is altered. This time the target is middle-class homeowners.
Begin the simple premise that the Federal government wants more of your tax dollars to spend. The Federal government is already spending at almost a rate of 2x over current tax receipts.

This post was published at Wall Street Examiner on August 14, 2017.