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When they quit allowing deductions for auto load interest, I began taking out home equity loans to buy cars. Got a lower rate and was still able to decuct the interest.

Yep.

When they quit allowing deductions for auto load interest, I began taking out home equity loans to buy cars. Got a lower rate and was still able to decuct the interest.

I’m some ways, this feels like another reason to roll that back, but I can’t put a finger on why in a well-rounded way. 

I could get behind eliminating ALL deductions and loopholes, and then have everyone pay 10-12 percent, regardless of income and regardless of the source (with some exceptions, like a pre-existing Roth IRA).

But, nobody would ever propose this, because the people in power are mostly beholden to the mega-rich, and therefore highly compromised.

do you have any idea how many folks would be out of work

it will never happen but I do like the idea

The mega-rich have no need for income.  They can easily avoid any income tax.

The mega-rich tend to have corporate holdings, and those corporations are being taxed at least twice, and depending on the industry's regulations, sometimes many more times than that.

They often have stock holdings that pay no dividends.  They can easily borrow on those holdings and have plenty of money, but no "income".  This is the main way they avoid income tax, they simply don't have income.

The value of the holdings themselves is determined by the value placed by the market on that company's retained earnings.  The value of retained earnings is impacted directly by the corporate taxes paid.

How one might define "best" obviously is variable.  I personally would list something like Kansas or one of the Academies as "best".  If you could coacj, where would you like most to coach?  Stanford would make my list.  Washington?  UCSD?  Eastern Michigan?

Well, let's imagine I own say $3 billion in stock, which is not unheard of, but I'd call that mega wealthy.  Let's say I need $20 million a year in cash to live. Anything spent over that is buying assets, like another Gulfstream.  So, how many years can I borrow $20 million, pay the interest, and not run out?  This presumes the $3 billion doesn't appreciate, which generally it does.

And maybe every so often I sell some stock and pay it all back and taxes too.  Maybe every ten years I have an enormous tax bill.  Or not.

A feller can live pretty well on $20 million a year.  It's been done.