Tool Payment Forgiveness

[Old No7]

I like this!!

Maybe more trades, truckers and shop owners should start to lobby for "gubmint" assistance to show the left how LOONEY they are......

Old No7

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[Grizz]

and car payment forgiveness

and aircraft payment forgiveness

and boat payment forgiveness

and fast food budget forgiveness

and gasoline forgiveness

etc.

[GunnyMack]

How about my vet bills? Come on man talk about left leaning- my dogs sleep most of the day, dont work but 1 day a week, I pay for their food, housing, medical bills- Parker let's go, its time for your annual physical!

[jeepnik]

As a charter member of Tools & Ammo Anonymous I would support the tool loan forgiveness plan save for two issues. First my membership in T&A Anonymous would be revealed. And second only if folks who received tuition forgiveness had to fund my forgiveness plan.

Of course there would be a surcharge on those who earned degrees who are not working in the field they studied.

[Ysabel Kid]

and car payment forgiveness

and aircraft payment forgiveness

and boat payment forgiveness

and fast food budget forgiveness

and gasoline forgiveness

etc.

And levergun payment forgiveness!!!

[AJMD429]

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It always annoyed me that some of my fellow physicians in the higher paying specialties would not only have the money to go to Hawaii or Spain or wherever, but also that typically specialists are able to take bigger chunks of time off without disrupting their practice versus primary care doctors (people typically don't care who their anesthesiologist is, or get mad at their gallbladder surgeon for being out of town as long as he has a partner who is equally skilled with a scalpel, but they get downright testy if their personal family physician isn't around at all times - I guess it is sort of flattering). But those were all choices I made and options I could have chosen. Anyway once in practice I found out that as long as a meeting had some legitimate business purpose it wasn't hard to legitimately put it on your taxes as a "business expense". Being a Midwestern hillbilly, I really seldom took advantage of that. I think the furthest I traveled was to a meeting in Lancaster Pennsylvania for a specialty board certification review course.

Now unlike this 'business meeting' stuff, borrowing several hundred thousand dollars when you're in your twenties and using it to pay tuition was simply considered a loan you had to pay back with interest in your thirties, and I would never complain about that because if I recall we had a pretty good interest rate and as long as you went to a reasonable medical school and lived within your means, you could certainly pay it off.

BUT...... What I found just crazy was that I couldn't deduct any of the loan payments as a business expense, but if I went to Hawaii three times a year for some kind of lame meeting that I could have just as well going to in Indianapolis Indiana, THAT would be deductible... it seemed to me silly because you certainly don't have to go to Hawaii to learn how to treat cholesterol at some meeting there in order to practice medicine, but you kind of do have to get a degree from someplace, so it makes sense that that should be considered a legitimate business expense when it comes to paying taxes.

I guess my failure to understand that kind of accounting stuff is why I I'm not an accountant...

[Ray Newman]

I and others aid off our student loans. Any chance we'll get a refund?

[1894cfan]

Mike Rowe has been talking about this for quite a while now. Also been going on about the trades. Lack of new plumbers and builders, etc. One video I recently saw he was talking about one contractor that had NOBODY that would work! THAT is what the govt payouts do, why work when you can get paid for sitting at home and watch TV or play video games!

[Ray Newman]

"....One video I recently saw he was talking about one contractor that had NOBODY that would work! THAT is what the govt payouts do, why work when you can get paid for sitting at home and watch TV or play video games!"
--1894cfan

Or is the result of years of the educational system telling students that unless they attend and graduate from college, they will be left behind. My son graduated in 1988. During the graduation ceremony, the high school principal gave a short speech mostly aimed to those who were to attend a four year college or university and that if they were not attending a 4 institution, they should at least enroll in a junior college. No mention at all of the voc ed program.

Saw the same when I worked for the US Dept. of Education. There was a definite attitude by 95% of my coworkers about paying a plumber, mechanic, carpenter, etc., what was deemed to be "outrageous" prices to do work. To do some jobs, they hired cheap illegals to work for them, then turn around and complain about how society takes advantage of the illegal worker.

I remember one staff meeting soon after some celebrity died. All were talking about what he did as an actor or singer and how it touched their lives in such an important way. Room was silent-- you could have heard a pin drop -- after i said that to me those who pump the septic tank, pick up the weekly garbage,keep the electric on, and deliver the gas and food to the stores have a much more important and very great effect on my life.

[marlinman93]

I can't help but remember back in the 60's when the draft system recognized college deferments, but didn't recognize apprenticeships of any kind. I was well into my apprenticeship when I got my draft notice, and had to go in the military. Meanwhile my friends who were into college at the same time got exempted from the draft.
How is it that college is held at a higher standard than a skilled craft apprenticeship? We had to go to school the same number of years (4 years for me) and do it at night as we worked during the day.
So if college gets paid for, then apprenticeship programs should also get funded by the taxpayers. I personally don't want either to happen. Leave the system alone, as it's worked forever.