{"id":295,"date":"2011-04-04T15:18:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T19:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=295"},"modified":"2011-07-12T15:19:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T19:19:14","slug":"education-deduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Education Deduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did our taxes this weekend, to find a happy surprise: we now qualify for educational credits.  As recently as 2009, we didn&#8217;t qualify because we\u00e2\u20ac\u201dby \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I mean \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Eileene\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmade too much money.  But the ceiling for claiming a tuition deduction has been raised to something like $80,000 per person from an earlier ceiling much closer to the poverty line.<\/p>\n<p>Though I&#8217;m glad to take the deduction, I question whether someone making $80,000 a year (or $160,000 for a two-income household) really needs that money more than, say, all those educational budgets the federal government is slashing for lack of funds.  Benefiting personally from the adjustment doesn&#8217;t make it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did our taxes this weekend, to find a happy surprise: we now qualify for educational credits. As recently as 2009, we didn&#8217;t qualify because we\u00e2\u20ac\u201dby \u00e2\u20ac\u0153we,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I mean \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Eileene\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmade too much money. But the ceiling for claiming a tuition deduction has been raised to something like $80,000 per person from an earlier ceiling much closer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mdlake.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}