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Personal Finance > Freakonomics

More Tax Breaks for the Rich?

Multiple Authors | Mon, 11/16/2009 - 5:30pm | education benefits, education costs, tax breaks, taxes, taxing the rich |  8 comments

I was talking with some folks at LSU who were working on a proposal to exempt textbooks from sales taxes in Baton Rouge, currently a whopping 9 percent. I’m all in favor of cutting sales taxes, which are generally not progressive; but textbooks are a luxury good because college education is dispro ... Read more

Personal Finance > Don't Mess With Taxes

Tax help for education costs

Kay Bell | Fri, 03/27/2009 - 1:23pm | college scholarships, cost of learning, education costs, grants |  2 comments

When I was in college, and even just after I took my journalism degree to a full-time job at the local newspaper, I didn't think much about money. I made it through college without any debt. Some scholarships, a handful of grants each semester, saving my summer earnings for upcoming school ... ... Read more