This set of slides gives the case against the mortgage interest deduction. It argues that the deduction most benefits wealthy taxpayers, raises home prices and encourages speculation, and increases the budget deficit while doing little or nothing to increase the rate of home ownership.

1. More Slides from Ed Dolan’s Econ Blog http://dolanecon.blogspot.com/ The Case Against the Mortgage Interest Deduction Posted February 6, 2011 Terms of Use: These slides are made available under Creative Commons License Attribution—Share Alike 3.0 . You are free to use these slides as a resource for your economics classes together with whatever textbook you are using. If you like the slides, you may also want to take a look at my textbook, Introduction to Economics , from BVT Publishers.