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Re:Affordable Care by dkresge on Thursday January 19, 2017 @10:13AM (#13436350)
I'm positing false equivalence. Taking away the home mortgage interest deduction would make the homeowner and renter unequal. Doing so would not drive up rents, just as eliminating the mortgage deduction on investment property wouldn't impact house prices.
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Re:Affordable Care by ubernostrum on Friday January 20, 2017 @01:54AM (#13442118)
You said:

How would a renter feel if their rent increased because their landlord was unable to take a mortgage deduction?

I countered that the home mortgage interest deduction doesn't apply to rental properties. Renters and homeowners are thus currently unequal from a tax standpoint, since renters effectively pay a higher tax rate than homeowners. Removing the deduction would thus not create a new inequality; it would remedy an existing one.

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Re:Affordable Care by dragonwriter on Friday January 20, 2017 @02:09AM (#13442165)
The home mortgage interest deduction specifically doesn't, but mortgage interest on rental properties is still generally deductible.

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p527/ch01.html

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