If you want to get angry at the GOP about tax deductions, then get angry with them for not having the balls to lower all taxes with a lower fixed universal flat tax applicable to everyone with zero deductions, exclusions, exemptions or credits. Most people will come out no worse than in the present system of higher taxes offset by a maize of deductions, exclusions, exemptions and credits. Everyone, including all the unemployed tax accountants would have lower and simple tax a school kid could figure out on April 14th: income times tax rate = tax, period.
But the GOPe does not have the gonads to revolt 100% from the Progressives’ tax system of social and economic engineering. Why? There is too many votes to by by promising to exchange whose ox is being gored to whose ox will not be gored. There would be no such political payola in a universal flat tax system.