UC-Davis Law Professor Dennis Ventry: Mortgage Interest Deduction

Homeownership has come to be viewed as an integral part of The American Dream, and tax policy is just one way that politicians have sought to promote it. The mortgage interest deduction is the second most expensive tax subsidy, second only to the tax exclusion for employer-provided health insurance. Dennis Ventry, a law professor at the University of California-Davis, recently authored an article on the mortgage...