I see no serious opportunity to gather support from enough home owners to rescind it so we are stuck with it but that doesn't mean I embrace similar logic as a great way to dictate other behaviors. Particularly, when that behavior is forced participation in an irrational market. You want to prop up an irrational market, do so out of the commons like we do for streets, police, fire, food inspection, and national security.
Eventually, I would like to balance this by offering relief to renters in someway. I think if framed correctly, that would be something that folks could support even if they would fight like rabid wolverines against killing their of their deduction might be fine with another being granted even if logically the money floating around has to come from somewhere.
I also don't accept the Roberts court changing clearly expressed legislative intent in yet another episode of going outside their constitutional authority. Throughout the process the responsible legislators were in agreement that they were not applying a tax but rather a fee. The switchover should not be possible by judicial fiat in our system and a fee would have been struck down for equal protection reasons so the judiciary pulled the legislative fat out of the fire by magically transforming clear, repeated, and even strenuously argued intent rather than doing what they were supposed to and return the law to the legislature for revision, which I'm sure is okay with many Democrats because that would mean the reform would be dead because an election had changed the composition of Congress in such a way to make any revision impossible but that is exactly what should have happened under our system and the sole fault of the legislators for their stupid and inept intent, purely for political messaging at the time in a vain attempt to avoid honestly raising taxes as stated by a nonsense political promise that clearly was of little to no importance though it was used to justify a lot of silliness around revenues at the time.
Look, we have been triangulated into supporting the implementation rather than allowing the TeaPubliKlans to rule by conjured crisis and hostage taking. We know this so all trying to sell the shit does is irk nerves, at least for me.
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