@Iglooo lowering corporate taxes, I can’t state this enough, 40%, when my taxes are going up is not good, especially when the whole “trickle down” theory has been proven false.
Has anyone posted this yet? https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/11/07/the-gop-tax-plan-will-destroy-graduate-education/#417455ed3d2f
Yup. That has been discussed a few dozens of pages ago, but it is worth posting again.
I wonder if grad schools can get around that with phraseology. “Graduate students who teach x number of hours are exempt from tuition”, etc.
@jym626 we have a thread going on about that: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/2029841-republican-tax-proposal-gets-failing-grade-from-higher-ed-groups.html#latest
I’m freaking out about it. It would double my income and throw me into the 25% tax bracket with 100k+ income “on paper” but really only around 50k because my tuition waiver is NOT income!!
I am so sorry, romani. Just crossing my fingers and toes that this does not come to fruition.
@jym626, the Senate version doesn’t have that change to tax tuition in it. But who knows what will pass and what will happen in reconciliation with the House.
I’m wondering what a better name to call the bill is, than the “Cut, Cut, Cut Act,” as proposed by the president. Maybe, “Tax Cuts for Businesses paid by Tax Increases for Individuals Act”?
Any other ideas?
Screw the young, poor, and sick who don’t donate to our campaigns and therefore deserve regular* bankruptcy… bill.
*not rich people bankruptcy where there are no real consequences to not paying your bills
Only a bulldozer pushes away from itself, as my grandpa used to say. The Bulldozer Cut. As in, let’s bulldoze the students and the middle class to pave the road for corporate giveaways.
I’m torn between the two. I wonder if there’s a good way to combine them.
Maybe that is the difference between the house & senate bills. 
^^Very clever, intparent!
Millionaires and billionaires pen letter to Congress asking them not to cut their taxes.
“the Senate version doesn’t have that change to tax tuition in it.”
Yes, it does include taxing tuition waivers. This is a very hot topic in financial aid circles.
Damn
99.8% of the population does not even qualify for estate tax. That’s only .2% that does…not 2%. The wealthiest in this country get a break! What the heck? The exemption for estate tax is already over $5 million. That money has to be made up from somewhere. It’s just ridiculous.
Tuition reimbursement is totally taxable for my kid, is that any different from tuition discounting as a job perk, or tuition waivers? The door looked like it was a little open already.
@kelsmom, is this Washington Post article wrong?
My understanding is that the House version of the bill taxes graduate student stipends, but the Senate version does not. Of course it hasn’t been through reconciliation yet (and maybe the Senate bill has been changed or this article is inaccurate).
Now that’s funny. George Soros makes billions of dollars a year, paying taxes at low carried interest rates, donating millions to lobbyists to keep the deal going through the years.
I’m sure he’s very concerned that his taxes might get cut. 
I wonder if the fine print on that letter says that if the bill makes them pay the rates of us pathetic working stiffs, they will never donate another cent to the politicians.