Quote from trefoil:
That letter has got to be one of the stupidest things ever written.
How many ways is the housing market subsidized? Let's count the ways:
1 - Mortgage interest deduction.
2 - Property tax deduction (sales taxes aren't)
3 - The existence of the GSE's, Fannie and Freddie, whose mission is to keep up liquidity in the marketplace.
4 - Etc: FHA, FHLB, a whole slew of Federal agencies and interventions, all designed to "make housing affordable", or something.
So this latest is just the next in line. The housing market hasn't been a free market in a long long time.