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

42.   Take the mortgage interest deduction, for instance.

43.   The home mortgage deduction?

44.   The minority leader would drop popular tax breaks for charitable contributions and employer pension contributions, but he would not eliminate the mortgage interest rate deduction.

45.   The options include taxing high-priced health insurance policies provided by employers, limiting itemized deductions, and modifying the home mortgage interest deduction.

46.   The mortgage deduction helps explain why so many developers are racing to build tract mansions in Alpharetta rather than high-rise apartment buildings overlooking Centennial Olympic Park.

47.   The most obvious transition problem involves the handling of the mortgage interest deduction, which millions upon millions of middle-income Americans have come to view as a birthright.

48.   The real estate industry holds that the price of houses would rise enormously without the mortgage interest deduction.