The bold is a good thing.
Deductions just perpetuate class warfare.
No one, I repeat NO ONE should get a tax return, we should all have to write uncle sam a check each year.
A tax return means you lent the government your money for up to 12 months interest free. That is just plain stupid financing.
If we all had to write a check each year for our taxes, everyone would be pissed off right now, and maybe, just maybe you would see some changes in the way our money is spent wasted.