Dancing with the One That Brung You

One of the reasons they have remained employees at the university for twenty years is that universities have been able to provide qualified tax-free tuition reductions for their employees. This law has been in the Internal Revenue Code for many, many decades and has historic precedent that in some ways goes back centuries.

yeah - it "goes back centuries...."

Tax breaks/credits are just a ploy to make the code more complex and insure the government has many un-Constitutional avenues for redistributing tax payer funds.

They made it seem palatable by initially "encouraging families and home ownership" and then broadened it into ways to try to control the activities of the People - usually with the onus being on the lower income folks by taxing items that they wanted to "discourage".

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