Gingrich: Romney’s mortgage deduction idea ‘class warfare’

The Wall Street Journal - Market Watch ^ | April 18, 2012 | Robert Schroeder

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan
"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792

[BenLurkin]

What it the purpose for a an interest deduction on a vacation home?

[freedomfiter2]

It’s so that urban wealthy can live in the city while also buying up rural land, making it unaffordable for the people that actually live there.

[arderkrag]

We can't get this man off the national stage fast enough.

[SoConPubbie]

What it the purpose for a an interest deduction on a vacation home?

To try and increase/spur home sales probably, but why the question?

If Romney truly was trying to solve the tax/budget problem he'd be proposing to drastically slash the size of Government while drastically cutting and simplifying the tax rates.

He'll do neither because he's not a conservative, but a Progressive Liberal.

Oh he'll make noise about something, but nothing of substance will ever come of it because in his heart he's not a conservative.

[onyx]

Romney on Wednesday also picked up a big-name endorsement, from Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, who said Romney will unify the party.

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

All the mortgage deduction does is raise the price buyers are willing to pay for a house.

Lose the deduction, and the price of houses decreases proportionately.

It's another shell game the government plays to make you think you're getting something from them.

[cripplecreek]

Romney’s idea won’t win any friends among my neighbors. At least two of them are still paying on a second home and they are by no means “wealthy” people. Just regular old 5 figure blue collar people.

[cripplecreek]

He won’t touch the EPA, he won’t touch education, the DOE will continue doing nothing, the green speculators will continue to gamble with tax dollars.....

[DJ MacWoW]

Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason. Benjamin Franklin

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[svcw]

Wow, another liberal talking point/idea from Romney - not surprised.

[cripplecreek]

I don’t expect him to win but it wouldn’t shock me if he switched parties in the white house if he did.

[Ron C.]

"Mitch Daniels, who said Romney will unify the party."

Whoever it was is a fool - Romney has divided the party more than it has been in four decades.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[GenXteacher]

“Do you spend all your time posting anti-Romney rants?”

It’s SCP’s time. What do you care how it is spent?

[Kellis91789]

Interest on any investment is an investment expense. Borrowing money to make money is a prime tool of capitalism. Margin interest when trading stocks is also part of the expense involved in investing, and it is also deductible from the profit made on the investment so they only pay income tax on the “net profit”.

When someone buys a vacation home for $200K and sells it 30 years later for $500K, should they be taxed on $300K “gross profit” when they in fact paid more than that amount in investment expenses along the way and were left with zero “net profit” ? That would put the individual at a serious disadvantage compared to businesses that get to deduct their business expenses from their profits and pay income tax only on their “net profit”.

[Outlaw Woman]

Romney will sink his own boat with his mouth. Today, I’m hearing names being bounced around now for VP slot. Senators that no one has heard of. A losing combo. Rubio was mentioned but Rubio was quite clear last week in that there is no way. Was that just B.S.?

[BobL]

“What it the purpose for a an interest deduction on a vacation home?”

To encourage people to waste money on something not needed, so that they can feel good about sticking it to Uncle Sam. Why do you ask?

Actually, I wouldn’t mind seeing the entire deduction (first and second homes) done away with, just so we can start to get money from the middle class, and maybe get a bit closer to balancing the budget. Better yet, maybe leave the deduction and instead turn SS and Medicare into means-tested welfare programs. But do one of the two...because my kids are going to SUFFOCATE under this debt we’re running up today.

[Mamzelle]

Thought the same thing. If someone needs the deduction when interest rates are so low, maybe he shouldn’t be buying a second home.