Bait and switch?

Here's the bait:

Tax breaks such as deductions for home mortgage interest and state and local taxes cost the federal government $728 billion last year and need to be reexamined, the Government Accountability Office said in a new report on Friday.

There is, of course, no way in hell that the Evil Party will strip these deductions out, because there are a lot of suburban Evil Party voters that would have multiple litters of kittens if they couldn't deduct the interest on their McMansions from their federal taxes.

I wonder what the switch will be? Perhaps the fiscally responsible™ counterproposal will be to just stop paying interest on the debt. After all, it's nothing but a big stack of IOUs.

—orc Sat Sep 24 10:27:41 2005

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Bait and switch?