>>* remove the mortgage interest deduction

>So what's your goal here, given that historically this was the single biggest tax benefits to the (ever-declining) middle class.

Weird, I've mostly read that it disproportionally helps the rich. Examples:

[1] https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2018/may/why-economist...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/artcarden/2019/06/28/should-we-...

[3] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-tax-deductions-econ...