11.   But some warned that the housing market would be heavily damaged if the deductions for interest on home mortgages and property taxes were eliminated.

12.   Critics contend that the plan would devastate real estate values by eliminating the deduction for mortgage interest.

13.   Homeowners, lenders and local real estate markets would almost certainly reel if the deduction was eliminated.

14.   His plan would eliminate all deductions, including the one for mortgage interest.

15.   In Britain, the mortgage deduction recently was eliminated, and homeownership rates remain roughly equal to US ownership rates.

16.   In its purest form, a flat tax would eliminate most deductions and tax all income at a single low rate.

17.   It has mounted a public relations campaign questioning the fairness of the flat tax, which would eliminate many deductions while taxing income at one or two rates.

18.   It eliminates the deductions for home mortgages and charitable contributions.

19.   Moving to a flat tax would be feasible only if we eliminated that huge deduction.