I ' ve been sabering bottles for years . That Alton Brown video just taught me that sabering bottles is actually a thing . Now you ' re telling me that you ' ve been doing this shit for years ? <| sep |> It ' s a specific carveout of corporate welfare for banks . It ' s absolutely welfare . It ' s government saying you both owe me 18 % of your income , and even though you both spend equal amounts of money on housing , I ' m going to allow YOU to deduct this specific sort of interest you ' re being charged , but not you . I like mortgage interest deductions . But they ' re still welfare for the middle class and lenders . When we build specific deductions into the tax code to benefit a narrowlydefined group of people , we ' re still spending money for the benefit of some at cost to all . We ' ve decided that ' s cash we don ' t need to collect . We could lower marginal rates instead , but then we wouldn ' t get to show the people who sent us to Washington the tax code which shows we were thinking of them .