[PEN-L:11492] Re: Home Mortgage Deduction

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> It seems like more than an interesting observation. It could be the topic
> of a scholarly book like the one just published on automobiles by the
> Nation editor (can't recall her name.) Somehow I suspect that the big push
> into suburbia--which was facilitated by stepped-up automobile production
> and highway construction--was a political calculation. The ruling class
> understood that workers who owned rather than rented tended to adopt
> petty-bourgeois prejudices more easily. I imagine that a foray into the
> policy statements of the legislators of home mortgage interest deduction
> legislation would reveal some interesting ruling class attitudes.
>
> Louis Proyect

David Gordon has written that suburbia was favored because workers used
to live in communities close by their work sites, making organizing
easier.  The author was Jane Holtz.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

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