From the House to the Senate! ​Trump's Tax Plan = 20% Pay Cut for Grad Employees

I urge our legislators to reject this bill, which would make graduate study impossible for many of our talented students.

Instead of taxing grad students, the government should be taxing large corporations and business conglomerates.

Do not do this! Do not raise this tax on the back of our graduate students! This is insane!

Passing this act would prevent myself and many colleagues from having enough income from fellowships to actually pay our bills.

Please stop this tax bill which will make it impossible for many of us to afford to continue our educations due to the increased burden of taxable tuition.

This is obnoxious. Grad students are severely underpaid already, to tax us on top of the little we make, we would be forced to get on welfare/food stamps/etc.

This would be absolutely detrimental.

Please put a stop to this craziness. This plan is not helping anyone, except the wealthy. Let's be honest!

Tuition remission is not a purchase or an income. Students receiving tuition remission never see a cent of that money. The burden of any possible taxation should never fall to students just trying to make enough to live and continue their graduate work to further our nation's collective education.

I vote no to Trump's tax plan: https://waysandmeansforms.house.gov/uploadedfiles/bill_text.pdf

Tuition remission is not income. It's a discount. Discounts on purchases are not taxed. In fact, discounts on purchases REDUCE (sales) tax.

As a Rutgers faculty member, I join Rutgers graduate employees in urging you to reject this bill, which will do enormous harm to higher education and advanced research in our state and across the country.

Vite no please

A PhD would have been unattainable for myself and many other students who are not independently wealthy were it not for tax-free tuition remission. Any tax policy that puts the greatest the burden on those least able to pay is unacceptable and a grave threat to American development and innovation.

Penalizing people who already scrape to get by as well as trying to better themselves and the world around them isn't the direction I ever thought we would be going in. It's sad and disgusting.

As an international student with visa restrictions that prohibit employment off-campus and a graduate employee in Biological Sciences with demanding lab work, I live paycheck to paycheck. Any more additional cost would make continuing my research here improbable, especially in a state like NJ with high cost of living. I request that the US govt does not decide to further financially burden Graduate Students who already make way less than national average in a year.

This is absolutely ridiculous.

Horrible tax plan

Making the life of graduate students any more difficult than it already is, would be the last nail in America's academic coffin.

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