Your taxes aren't helping me. In fact, MY taxes aren't helping me. At all...
Actually, I did pay off my mortgage, I just took out a home equity loan for one of my toys.
So you did not have enough money to buy a "toy", and instead decided to take out a loan. So far not my concern, but probably bad financial planning. Then the interest on that loan was tax free, and I had to subsidize that loan. But your "toy" did social good that made it worth subsidizing right? I mean educating a doctor means that doctor might one day save me from dying of cancer. Will your "toy" save me from dying of cancer?
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