If Obama and Congress really do want to stimulate development, they should allow students to treat education as a depreciable asset once they are gainfully employed. Business, science, and technology now change so fast that much of education loses value just as property can fall apart and depreciate.
Investment in education can be more important than building a new structure or buying a new vehicle or piece of machinery.
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Doug, The idea would be applicable to encourage the development of what I indicate as "Trade school training."
The old method was to apprentice to a skilled person and he didn't charge you he deducted or paid you little during the training.
What the tuition is or charges, and including the dormitory and food are expenses and non-deductible.
Mitchell Vo Tech has culiinary arts training might be the one to focus idea as we all need the food to learn alive>.
Hell'ava a lot better than the unemployment check and relearn where the jobs are.
Know anyone who knows how to weld via the computer knowledge? I learned a bit from the slick stick solving math problems but in cooken you still runa taste test
[[[ Note from Doug: Lowdon, perhaps I did not make the tax deduction idea clear enough, but it should apply to all kinds of higher education or retraining, trade schools, etc. I suspect the odds of Congress doing anything that puts their words regarding support for education and need for new researchers and innovators into action considering the current retrograde attitudes in Congress, but we never know.]]]
Posted by: Lowdon | Jan 10, 2013 at 09:10 AM