# Cause of Death: End Stage Poverty **URL:** \ **Category:** Macro Economic Trends and Risks\ **Created:** [April 11, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/cause-of-death-end-stage-poverty/103935 "2024-04-11T22:29:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![flyerboys](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/user_avatar/discussion.fool.com/flyerboys/32/2123_2.png) [@flyerboys](https://discussion.fool.com/u/flyerboys)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/cause-of-death-end-stage-poverty/103935/21 "2024-04-13T21:49:06Z")
So long as my space was clean and cleanable, and reasonably lightproof and sound resistant (so that earplugs would serve for going to sleep), I would be fine. Many many of the homeless people I have known (pregnant mother under a bridge sleeping in mud, homeless kid hoping I would prostitute him for the night) would have been thrilled to. be offered such. d fb ---
**Author:** ![ImAGolfer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/user_avatar/discussion.fool.com/imagolfer/32/4868_2.png) [@ImAGolfer](https://discussion.fool.com/u/ImAGolfer)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 11:36am UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/cause-of-death-end-stage-poverty/103935/22 "2024-04-14T11:36:00Z")
> [@steve203](#): > > **Sounds like the space on the Lex where my rack was, except we didn’t have niceties like doors, or curtains. So, what’s the problem?** I hear ya Steve. Sounds similar to the space I was granted on the USCGC Gentian. ImAGolfer (USCG '66-'70) ---
**Author:** ![Goofyhoofy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/user_avatar/discussion.fool.com/goofyhoofy/32/4721_2.png) [@Goofyhoofy](https://discussion.fool.com/u/Goofyhoofy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/cause-of-death-end-stage-poverty/103935/23 "2024-04-14T14:20:09Z")
> [@ptheland](#): > > I think you mis-read. You and the Mrs. Need to bring a couple dozen friends along in your RV. Ah, well that’s slightly different. Hence the name “coffins”. I missed it completely. Ah well, wouldn’t be the first time. ---
**Author:** ![Leap1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/user_avatar/discussion.fool.com/leap1/32/72176_2.png) [@Leap1](https://discussion.fool.com/u/Leap1)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/cause-of-death-end-stage-poverty/103935/24 "2024-04-14T15:16:22Z")
Does the government have an obligation to house people? Can I deduct my mortgage from my taxes? **You can deduct the interest you paid on the first $750,000 of your mortgage during the relevant tax year**. For married couples filing separately, that limit is $375,000, according to the Internal Revenue Service.Mar 13, 2024 Now flip it around. We make the lower middle class poor and then question any government support. But if you buy a home for $750k you want a mortgage interest deduction that is close to the lower middle class yearly income. The supply-side econ idea is to attack the poor so you can get a tax cut as well. Just berate poor people to death quite literally. Now in dollar and cents terms if the supply-siders get all those wishes of death for poor people our GDP growth is very poor. The debt mounts up. We fail our industrial base. I can see how absolutely stupid all of that is. ---
**Author:** ![steve203](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/user_avatar/discussion.fool.com/steve203/32/3302_2.png) [@steve203](https://discussion.fool.com/u/steve203)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/cause-of-death-end-stage-poverty/103935/25 "2024-04-14T15:22:26Z")
> [@Leap1](#): > > Can I deduct my mortgage from my taxes? That isn’t a subsidy for home ownership. It is a subsidy for being in debt. I paid off my mortgage in the late 90s. I still own the same condo, over 20 years later, but the government has not subsidized me in many years. Steve ---
**Author:** ![Leap1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/motleyfoolfree/user_avatar/discussion.fool.com/leap1/32/72176_2.png) [@Leap1](https://discussion.fool.com/u/Leap1)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2024, 3:58pm UTC](https://discussion.fool.com/t/cause-of-death-end-stage-poverty/103935/26 "2024-04-14T15:58:11Z")
> [@Leap1](#): > > Can I deduct my mortgage from my taxes? I got one of those edited. Yes Mortgage interest deduction. I know but had a late night. adding ah that quote was the Google question. It can be seen as a banking favor by the US government. It can be seen as a way to prop up home prices. It can be seen as a favor to the construction industry. It comes at a cost to the working poor or in others words half of all Americans are propping up some very lazy fat heads who would screw around on them. [Previous page](https://discussion.fool.com/t/cause-of-death-end-stage-poverty/103935.md?page=1)