IRS shotguns?

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http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/02/025515.php

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It’s easy to understand the Obama administration’s purpose with regard to churches and private charities, which it regards as competitors of the government. It wants to damage or destroy them by making contributions more expensive. But what about the mortgage interest deduction? The administration purports to be concerned about the decline in home prices that triggered the economic crisis of 2008-2009. But severely reducing the mortgage interest deduction will inevitably depress home prices. And not just the prices of expensive homes, either; as those prices fall, the values of less-expensive houses will decline as well. Is this really what the administration wants? It is hard to escape the conclusion that the Obama administration simply doesn’t care about America’s economy.

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http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/13547-The-red-and-the-black.html

(a federal property tax? would get the DemSoc to the promised land –the direct national ‘taking’ wealth –Constitution goes into the museum, Golden Calf comes out)

OTOH, if if if a good Constitutionalist conservative overturn of the twelve million word IRS code in favor of ANY of the major ‘flat’ or ‘fair’ tax proposals (Steve Forbes, Huckabee) required losing the mortgage interest deduction, hey, do it –who’d care in the boom that followed?