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You should think of a tax deduction less as "free money" and more as "behavior the government wants to subsidize."

"This is a better paradigm because the government has decided to subsidize it" isn't a particularly compelling argument.



It's not a compelling argument for society, but it's a compelling argument for the individual at the instantaneous moment of making that microeconomic decision.


Sure, I thought we were talking about what makes sense for us to do as a society, not as individuals.




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