Fellow childfree folks, how much did you love writing the check out to the IRS after hearing all the

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43. the record is clear

I have personally called for the elimination of the mortgage deduction twice http://journals.democraticunderground.com/hfojvt/151

Yeah, when a family making $20,000 or $30,000 a year more than I do gets a $2,000 subsidy and I get nothing. Why, yes, I do think that is bullsh*t. I prefer that tax rebates be tilted to favor those at the bottom, or, at the very absolute minimum, be equal.

I guess it is too much to expect other progressives to a) care about the poor and b) be in favor of equality.

Thousands for the upper middle class, nothing for the poor, and if the poor complain, tell them to shut up and focus on the rich, while we keep grabbing those thousand dollar bills.

A few hundred dollars of relief? For a couple with two children who live to be 17, it is $34,000 over that span - plus interest. Just chickenfeed to you, I suppose, but I happen to have paid $35,000 for the house I live in. So from where I sit it looks like a free house.