With the tax reform debate now fully underway, Apartment List examined the popular mortgage interest deduction (MID) and
compared federal expenditure on the MID to spending on Section 8 rental assistance programs.
Not exact matches
One way to illustrate this is to
compare the «real»
federal funds target rate (using core consumption
expenditures prices, excluding food and energy) to the so - called «natural real rate of interest,» or «R *.»
Total
Federal Government funding per student for Australian public schools rose by 115.2 per cent over the past decade,
compared with 15.8 per cent for private schools although the total
Federal Government
expenditure per student is still higher for private school students at $ 6434
compared with $ 1915 for public school students.
Under the administration's budget, two of the department's largest
expenditures in K - 12 education, special education and Title I funds to help poor children, would remain unchanged
compared to
federal funding levels in the first half of fiscal 2017.
And Tempterrain drives home his superiority in non-sequiturs and shifting the conversation away from questions he is keen to avoid, similarly asking how the $ 2.7 billion
compares to other
expenditures of the US
Federal government.
Compare that to 25 years ago, when housing was 7.8 percent of
federal expenditures, according to
federal budget data.