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Home Mortgage Deduction from Income Tax - Is a Million Too Much? (in Kent Patch)

Tax "loopholes" should be closed. The second-largest loophole is the Home Mortgage Interest Deduction. Should the maximum mortgage amount be reduced from a million to a quarter-million dollars?

Thoughts on the Obama Payroll Tax Cut, about to expire. (in Kent Patch)

The Obama Payroll Tax Cut expires December 31, 2012. Extend, modify, replace, or let it expire with the tax cuts for high-income earners?

Real Estate

Flood Insurance Poll: Rebuild Homes in High-Risk Areas?

Do you approve of flood insurance, so that people can build, or re-build, homes in places that are likely to flood?

Government

Low Taxes for Highest Incomes is a Job-Killer

Why a low tax rate on high incomes is a job-killer. Free-market capitalist analysis of how the reduction in tax rates in 2001 reduced job creation in America and limited incomes for working Americans.

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