31.   Interest rates would fall to such an extent, he says, that homeowners would not miss their mortgage interest deductions.

32.   Mortgage interest deductions have helped millions of young families buy homes.

33.   Meanwhile, the well-off would get subsidies through the tax system for such benefits as unlimited mortgage interest deductions or high-cost health insurance.

34.   Most analysts doubt that Congress will risk offending the politically powerful middle class by repealing the mortgage interest deduction even if the tax code is flattened.

35.   One of the largest business provisions in the House tax bill is a change in the way multinational corporations are allowed to allocate their worldwide interest deductions.

36.   Q. What happens to the home mortgage interest deduction?

37.   Q. What effect will the elimination of the home mortgage interest deduction have on the housing market?

38.   Since there would be no interest deduction for home mortgages, the consumption tax would also end the tilt toward residential allocation of capital.

39.   Take the mortgage interest deduction, for instance.