### Comment:
Nope.  The mortgage interest deduction was an itemized deduction.  Only people with very large mortgages ever got any benefit from it, because even on $300k+ loans, your annual interest payments were not higher than the standard deduction anyway.

### REPLY:
This is complete bullshit. State income tax,  sales tax,  property tax,  mortgage interest,  AND charitable contributions all went in there, plus,  the standard deduction was much lower. A third of all taxpayers used to itemize.

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