Re: MS Saves Money by taking out a loan rather than using its own cash

I think I recall that student loans are tax deductible. In a pejorative
sense it seems like a sneaky way to institutionalize everyone. I'm not sure
self-education is tax deductible unless you masquerade it as a business.
It is hard to be self-employed too without taking a big tax burden. Hmm...
I do not think I am thinking though this to the end though..

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On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 10:35 AM, Timothy Holborn <timothy.holborn@gmail.com
> wrote:

> "you know something is deeply wrong in our market system when a company
> like Microsoft, which has $100 billion in cash sitting in bank accounts
> (much of it offshore), decides it needs to borrow billions to fund its
> acquisition of the social networking platform LinkedIn.".... " Because it
> will save around $9 billion in U.S. taxes by doing so. Debt is tax
> deductible, and borrowing will save Microsoft money relative to bringing
> overseas cash back home and paying the U.S. corporate tax rate on it."
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> source: http://time.com/4368047/microsoft-linkedin-deal-merger-debt/
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> thought it was interesting...  not sure whether the payments works have
> any role with regard to considerations herein, but given the 'human
> centric' vs. 'service-centric' considerations i thought perhaps at some
> level we are making ideological choices somewhere herein; and,
>
> that's about as far as i got thinking about it...
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> Tim.H.
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