Capping the mortgage interest deduction provoked no public backlash

Evidence

After all of these changes, there was no public outcry, despite what the real estate lobby had predicted. Indeed, as The New York Times reported, the response was so minimal that some in Washington are proposing getting rid of the deduction altogether. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 1293

Categorization

• CANDY: Nice cocktail fact: ending the sacred mortgage deduction drew barely a peep, contradicting lobby predictions.