The mortgage interest deduction is one of the larger tax expenditures, but it is not the only one. Far from it.
More than one tax expenditure a day has been added to our tax code in the past decade.
Every day, some Congressman is giving some constituent a gift. As a bill moves past him in the pipeline, he adds a rider to it gifting someone with a tax break that YOU have to make up for. A tax break that ADDS to the national debt.
Take away the ability for a Congressman to do that, and you take away a large part of the incentive for special interests to dump truckloads of cash into their campaign coffers. Take away the ability for a Congressman to do that, and you bite deeply into his current 97 percent chance of being re-elected.
But what do we have instead? Some dipshits writing to this pile of corruption saying "Keep up the good work!"
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The Way Forward: End Tax Expenditures
Re: The Way Forward: End Tax Expenditures
by The Dharma Bum » Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:02 pm
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Re: The Way Forward: End Tax Expenditures
by G5000 » Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:07 pm
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Re: The Way Forward: End Tax Expenditures
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Re: The Way Forward: End Tax Expenditures
by G5000 » Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:15 pm
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We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one. - Ronald Reagan
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Re: The Way Forward: End Tax Expenditures
by G5000 » Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:16 pm
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Re: The Way Forward: End Tax Expenditures
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Re: The Way Forward: End Tax Expenditures
by G5000 » Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:19 pm
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Re: The Way Forward: End Tax Expenditures
by G5000 » Thu Dec 06, 2012 12:20 pm
Heh. If you hate the idea of having your presents taken away, you are REALLY going to hate my next idea! 
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