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: Instapundit.comTHE MORTGAGE-INTEREST DEDUCTION: A benefit for Blue States? ?The benefits of the mortgage interest?
By Glenn Reynolds
THE MORTGAGE-INTEREST DEDUCTION: A benefit for Blue States? “The benefits of the mortgage interest deduction are not evenly distributed among the states. … [T]he per capita tax benefit from the mortgage interest deduction for Californians is more than two and a half times that for Texans. Marylanders get nearly five times the benefit of citizens in neighboring West Virginia. We always knew the mortgage interest deduction was unfair — favoring those in high tax brackets with big houses over renters and low-income homeowners. But until we did the calculations — as far as we know, the first of their kind — we did not suspect the geographic dispersion of tax benefits would be so large.”
Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 24, 2011 (boomark / email).
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