Re: Peggy Noonan on Imigration
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Taxing is meant to raise revenue, period. Not to control other peoples lives, businesses, who they hire, or what they spend their money on. The GOP doesn't target taxes like this because the basic belief in economic freedom doesn't escape them too often.
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No one with a passing familiarity with the tax code believes this. To note the most famous example:
"Affordable housing is in the national interest. That is why the mortgage interest deduction for primary residences was put into the federal tax code and why tax reform of
any kind should continue to encourage homeownership."
From the GOP's 2004 platform.
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