If you pay your mortgage you are a assumed to be a cheat. The ACORN-Obama voter types get endless bailouts, handouts and freebies, pay no taxes and have their hands out for more.
I think it is probably more like: If you pay $50,000 in mortgage interest, but only report income of $40,000, you are suspected of being a tax cheat (unless you are a democrat on the ways and means committee).