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Peter Roskam: Every single year American taxpayers give colleges and universities billions of dollars worth of tax breaks.

On the recordMarch 1, 2016
Every single year American taxpayers give colleges and universities billions of dollars worth of tax breaks.
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Peter Roskam
Republican · Illinois

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Roskam highlights taxpayer funding for colleges and questions its effectiveness.

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Mar 21, 2018

That seems foolish, as it is presented now.

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Mar 6, 2018

That is right. So, to the gentleman's point, a deduction is a decrease in a taxable liability; a credit is a credit. Once the tax is calculated, the credit is an amount that comes off of that tax liability, so it is a very significant…

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Mar 21, 2018

The burden locally will be enormous if that is not spoken to and remedied in some way.

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Feb 5, 2018

But there are some subtleties there that I need to learn more about.

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