[Balding_Eagle]

Most renters see the deduction as a tax and a scam. It needs to be eliminated.

The'll quit thinking it's a scam once it's eliminated and the 'tax increase' gets added to their rent.

[silverleaf]

exactly

Or do renters think that property owners, like “corporations”, are so rolling in money that they will (or can be forced by govt) to absorb extra costs without passing them along?

Eliminating deductions increases costs.
Who pays?