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.  

Nowhere in our Constitution does it say anything even remotely close to having our federal government doling out money to people who have been affected by the financial downturn.

I don't care if you're AIG, ANYONE from Wall Street or even the B3.

For the record, if you're curious, Congress' powers are enumerated under Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution.

They apparently forgotten about Article 1, Section 9 as well, but I'll save that for another discussion.

Now, if Congress actually adhered to those CLEARLY enumerated duties, an income tax would never have become necessary, to say nothing about the tax deductions/incentives/subsidies you've cited above.

So ask youself: Do you want to be a free individual or do you want to be someone's slave?