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- From: 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: Info on renting/buying
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.104445.44913@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 10:44:44 CST
- References: <921112651@danix.UUCP> <1992Nov13.181621.18688@donner.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1992Nov18.143832.2788@meaddata.com>
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- Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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- In article <1992Nov18.143832.2788@meaddata.com>, dedek@meaddata.com (Mike Dedek) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov17.232624.26624@wixer.cactus.org>, guppy@wixer.cactus.org (Jennifer Mery) writes:
- > |> I have a lot of good reasons to buy this house, but a tax deduction
- > |> isn't one of them. I'm always amazed by the stress put on tax
- > |> deductions. Some make little or no difference as compared to the cost
- > |> (like having kids, or losing money at the stock market).
-
- Yeah, I fed a year of projected mortgage interest payments into a
- tax program and it turned out Uncle Sam was willing to pay $17 a month
- toward buying a house. BUT that chunk of interest gives you a base
- for other itemizations and a lot of the 'middle-class perks' in
- the tax code are structured on the assumption you have that. I've
- filed complicated returns only twice (due to causalty losses once,
- liquidation of a profit-sharing fund once), and without a 'platform'
- to put other deductions on, you just have to swallow hard and watch
- what looked at first like wonderful tax breaks go bye-bye....
-
- Laws are written by and for white conventional middle-class home-
- owners, and if you don't fit the profile a lot of things don't
- work for you. Shame in a way, but I don't even hear the politicians
- talking anymore about re-structuring the mortgage deduction into
- a general housing allowance. (Was that a Jerry Brown thing?)
-
- Christopher Gunn Molecular Graphics and Modeling Lab
- SPAN--KUPHSX::GUNN Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Malott Hall
- 913-864-4428 or -4495 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
-