Wolf, you may be on to something. Before Iowa Dem. Senator Tom Harkin left office, he made a speech that I thought had some interesting implications. Soon after the Affordble Health Care Act was approved, he was making some suggestions on what more Democrats and liberals could do after all the kinks got worked out of AHA. I wondered if Harkin wanted government to take more control of another major part of the economy.

I wonder if the second paragraph of this story is something Harkin was thinking about. Create a tax on homes at a determined value and then take the revenue from that tax to help others buy a home - and maybe people who know they can't afford a mortgage. Isn't that what really caused the recession in 2008? Banks were giving mortgages to people who knew they couldn't pay it back? The banks rolled the dice hard for the revenue on the interest. But it blew up in their face as many people just walked away from the house and mortgage.