when the truth is and you know this reverend to be correct, that since president obama s been in office, the average middle class family has received $3600 worth of tax cuts. that s the payroll dedex tax cuts. that s the making work pay tax cut in the stimulus plan. that s the college deduction for kids in college all put together. the average family is paying $3600 less under president obama and they keep claiming he s raised taxes on people he hasn t raised taxes. he s cut taxes on ordinary americans. their plan would raise taxes on ordinary americans and give tax breaks to people who don t need them. will throw us into an incredible deficit situation. will add $3 trillion to $5 trillion of deficit. they say this will produce growth. over the last 60 years the times we ve had the best job creation growth has been when the tax rates on the rich has been
owes money. is there a loophole he wants to know. a lot of people didn t have enough withheld, maybe he can tally job-hunting costs. costs of resume and being on monster.com, things like that. maybe he went out to take a class to get in the workforce gains, the college deduction. maybe that is the angle he can take to wipe out the bill jenna: a lot of questions about mortgage deduction, what is going to happen to the mortgage deduction in the future. absolutely take it this year. the average mortgage deduction is generally around $10,000. it s a big deduction for a lot of people but makes it prime for the taking because that is money back that they won t have to give back to us. they are talking about take being it away, can t imagine it happening politically jenna: patricia wants to know about the flat tax. every time this time of year it seems come com complicated.
income standpoint but you can take that credit against last year s taxes if you go as late as april 30th. so people that own a home, if you meet certain income standards, you can get a credit for up to $6500 as late as april 30th. gregg: that is a good one. a lot of people donated to haiti? if you donated after the earthquake all the way through march 1st, you can take that deduction on last year s taxes or this year s but not both. gregg: what about an ira? you can still do an ira, meet income qualifiers, and for the self-employed, it s possible to get a simplified pension deduction of up to $49,000. gregg: what about college tuition? this year there is a college deduction between $2,000 to $4,000.