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A 12% nonrefundable tax credit for everyone. the mortgage and housing industry is furious. this is an industry for years spent an awful lot of money lobbying congress. lobbying that the tax code is a good way to encourage home ownership. critics say there s no evidence these things promote home ownership. nonetheless, the housing industry very, very concerned. the national association of realtors says leave that tax break alone, it would be devastating. any changes to the mortgage interest deduction now or in the future could critically erode home prices and the value of homes by as much as 15%. other representatives and lobbyists for the industry has said this would, quote, kill us in the housing industry right now. would come at such a terrible time. but this is this is part of middle class belt tightening i think, tony. you can say everything is on the table and something that adds $100 billion a year to the deficit is something that clearly the people looking at deficit control a ....
Inches so far. when it s all said and done we re expecting about 20 to 24 inches of snowfall. interstate 90, that s the main route that has been shut down between rochester and buffalo, extending down along lake erie. we have a pocket of activity around watertown. syracuse has kind of missed the bulk of this activity. in the forecast, i want to show you what we re anticipating. we ve seen temperatures stay in the 20s. some of these people that have been stuck, and let me tell you, it s 16 miles in some cases, tony. they have not moved an inch. they ve got vehicles, atv vehicles coming by giving people water and gasoline. not that they re going any place. and the temperature has remained about 28, 29 degrees. hasn t really moved. tony, yesterday, the temperature was 54 degrees. 54 degrees. get out of here. normal is about 40 degrees. for a high. ....