Perhaps this is lost on you, but all of these deductions are attempts by bureaucrats to soften the unintended results of previous interventions and punitive taxation.  

The fact is, you are looking at this exactly backwards...the intervention here is not in the deductions, but in the taxation squeezed from citizens in order for some dunderheaded bureaucrat to provide for citizens and businesses the things that citizens and businesses should best provide for themselves.  

And, incidentally, why are vouchers popular?  Because the government has proven itself to suck at providing education, particularly in areas where it has facilitated the destruction of families (one of those unintended consequences, by the way, of welfare intervention--can you say 25% graduation rate in Detroit?)  

The fact is, government intervention into the automobile industry, fiscal policy, monetary policy, energy policy, environmental policy, trade policy, labor policy, etc., etc., is the cause of this mess to begin with.