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Re:Harvard University Richest in World Encourages Students t... by twoodfin on Saturday August 12, 2023 @10:40AM (#37100647)
The home mortgage interest deduction is the same thing, mathematically. Is Harvard also being subsidized by the Feds via rich professors living in Cambridge?
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Re:Harvard University Richest in World Encourages Students t... by ElevenLathe on Saturday August 12, 2023 @12:13PM (#37101656)
Yes!
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Re:Harvard University Richest in World Encourages Students t... by twoodfin on Saturday August 12, 2023 @12:27PM (#37101788)
OK well, now all government benefits (and roads, and defense, and NIST, …) are “subsidies”, and it’s not clear why taking advantage of one—by Harvard or anyone else—is somehow counter to the reason the government is spending the money in the first place or otherwise worthy of scorn.
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Re:Harvard University Richest in World Encourages Students t... by ElevenLathe on Saturday August 12, 2023 @01:04PM (#37102132)
Now you've got it. We're a democracy and we tax ourselves to buy things for ourselves.
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