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

I am already in the bottom 10% of Americans in terms of income. Especially in this are with a high cost of living, I am already on the edge of a living wage. This change would be a terrible blow financially that would push me down while I am working hard to contribute to science and society.

Don't do this! We need scholars focused on research, not making ends meet! This will make it harder for low income folks to enter the academy than it already is.

This would stifle growth in American science both public AND PRIVATE! Collaboration is key, grad students are key for the latest tech, don't be ridiculous and short sighted.

This item in the proposed tax bill will greatly damage research in the US! We claim to be leaders in research and technology but will eliminate a large fraction of graduate students if this bill passes. An estimate 300% or so increase in taxes for individuals (some of which have families) to survive on already meager incomes is criminal. Do not support this!!!!

Tax the rich!!

This issue is critically important to low-income workers and their families and the future of the middle class.

FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY

I already make below the poverty line and half of my monthly paycheck (during the months I actually get paid) goes to rent. If new generations of students cannot afford to become scientists, I fear for our future.

Representatives McArthur and Prelinghuysen, Please recognize that taxing graduate students' tuition remission WILL make going to graduate school prohibitively expensive for anyone who is not one of a small number of extremely wealthy young people. Graduate students produce the knowledge that runs our society, and to limit the production of this knowledge to an elite group is incredibly dangerous. Please do not destroy our individual livelihoods and the future of our free nation. Thank you.

I don’t support the tax reform

To be clear, tuition remission is a phantom benefit for graduate students. Ph.D. students don't pay tuition. This particular component of the bill punishes graduate work and will make graduate study inaccessible to nearly all Americans, limiting our research and innovation potential.

This plan will let our phd students (future researchers) unable to sustain our living expenses.

Given that the tax plan would basically prevent me from doing anything other than study, eat, and sleep, this needs to be stopped

Graduate students perform essential education and research functions that drive innovation in this country and better prepare citizens of USA for careers in the workplace!

This is a terrible idea in a tax plan full of terrible ideas.

Tuition remission is not income!

It is very absurd!!

Grad students already barely make a living wage...especially when they already have a house/family/etc. to support

Please, Tom McArthur and Rodney Frelinghuysen, stop this tax plan before we lose the next generation of college professors. The proposed tax plan must not be approved. My colleagues and I worked very hard for many years so that we would gain acceptance into a PhD program that offered tax-free tuition remission. I, like many others, am paid a teaching assistant stipend. Graduate students are not paid much - effectively just enough to pay rent and buy food- but we continue on with determination and passion because we care so deeply about the work we do. Graduate students perform essential tasks and services at their institutions. This proposed tax increase would force me and countless others to withdraw from our graduate programs. Please vote no!

Tax the rich. Not grad students.