George Will Thinks the Mortgage Interest Deduction Is Destroying the American Character

There may be some case here, but of course that is not what George Will is actually arguing. He is pulling numbers from outer space to tell a story of a run away welfare state. As he quotes that great welfare reformer of the past, Daniel Patrick Moynihan:

"the issue of welfare is not what it costs those who provide it but what it costs those who receive it."

Okay, none of us like to see healthy people in their prime working years scamming the rest of us rather than working. But in spite of Wi...