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...everything needs to be considered — including curtailing such popular tax breaks as the home mortgage deduction.

That's a bunch of horse-$hit! Maybe they should consider cutting spending. Curtailing the home mortgage tax deduction will be the straw that breaks the communist donkey's back. That will be tar & feather time.

[NormsRevenge]

simple answers are tough for most politicians to understand. what’s in it for them? is all many care about..

[gusopol3]

This is a great way to make sure housing gets flattened even further and longer. It’s hard to say, just with AP reporter excerpting what they say, but it seems old Simpson’s a lot more willing to put the heebie-jeebies in homeowners than he is to put public employees on edge about their salaries, benefits and pensions, which is the direction he should be going.