This is how the swamp works, and it's one of the reasons it's so difficult to do what most serious people understand needs to be done with the tax code. Loading up the code with special favors for certain constituencies makes no sense. Using the tax code to incentivize people to buy homes, or two live in high-tax states, is not what the code is sofr. It's for raising revenue to fund the government, period, and to do so in the least burdensome and most equitable way possible. So the current proposal that would raise the standard deduction but eliminate special breaks is exactly the direction we need to take. It would lighten the tax burden of everyone just for being alive, rather than lighten it for some people because they fall into certain categories, and thus place a heavier burden on others. It gets the government out of the business of deciding certain behaviors are more desirable, and worthy of more favorable tax treatment, than others.

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