Taxpayers may have helped you pay for your home.
Taxpayers may have helped you raise your children.
Whatever deductions you took advantage of were something that was set up so you could take advantage of it.
Why are some deductions okay, and others not?
It has been my take that Conservatives are always happy to use whatever means they can to reduce their tax exposure.
Now on this vehicle, you’re against it.
Okay, then I should be against your home mortgage and other property interest deductions. I guess I should also be against any deductions for yourself or your wife and any children you have.
Since you now don’t believe in tax deductions where offered, you should live up to your words on the subject.
Deductions are now evil according to you.
Somehow I doubt you’re going to take a pass on any that are legitimate.
I reduced my tax exposure in 2006 by $1,950.00. Would love to do it again.
Now, now... a deduction is not the same thing as a subsidy. A deduction lets one keep more of one’s own money. A subsidy takes from one taxpayer and gives to some other person.
As a matter of fact, taxpayers did not help me raise our children. We taught them at home. The taxes we paid for government schools went to mis-educate other people’s kids.
BTW, libertarian economist Milton Friedman was criticized for using taxpayer funded college loans. As he said, he opposed such programs, but he would be a fool not to take advantage of them. We all do it, which pretty much explains why the US is in so much debt.