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.. -Brent Shambaugh Skype: brent.shambaugh LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brent-shambaugh-9b91259 Twitter: https://twitter.com/Brent_Shambaugh 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." > > source: http://time.com/4368047/microsoft-linkedin-deal-merger-debt/ > > 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... > > Tim.H. > > > >
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