- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deduction Quotes
One word, several kinds of careful thinking.
Deduction shows up everywhere from tax law to philosophy, and this set of quotes tracks that range, including a nod to critical thinking at any age.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first encounters with faith came about the time I was a Boy Scout, at about 14 or 15. I made the logical deduction that they operate the same way; I treated my faith like earning a merit badge, and everything about Christianity was about earning merit badges.
- Broader
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look at the idea of eliminating the state and local tax deduction as a geographic redistribution of wealth, because you're taking money from a place like New York to provide deeper tax cuts elsewhere.
- Point
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- Nov 07, 2020
The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, if a chief question does remain: how is the power to think possible? - The power to think right and left, before and without, with and above experience? then it does not take a deduction to prove the genealogical priority of language.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The National Multifamily Housing Council, a trade association of apartment owners, managers, developers and lenders, has come to the defense of the interest deduction and other provisions favorable to the real estate industry, describing them as 'core principles' and promising a fight.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some tax expenditures that are there for very obvious and very important and very good policy reasons. Whether it's the charitable deduction or the deduction for homes, it's not a loophole.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020