From the Ecological Society of America's *Policy News: November 20, 2017*
"The tax reform bill passed by the House on Nov. 16 includes changes that would affect higher education, making it less affordable and less accessible by eliminating tax provisions for graduate students and imposing an excise tax on nonprofit private university endowments. In response to the proposed changes, ESA joined other scientific societies to send a letter to House leadership <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ABQDHEpX8SXmWBxv6b47UZ80yHQTH6A1AngJMXxYPGoNzVWopfhzUY2sfjSxkB2gzpVbKzV6Uj4Ezya1SMQhmTZPHkRyaWxFHvN2TuXFTkLpbEmaGwvGQpzfDvqd2pufCYQWWfi8PrNfP1YC8iEGquBP8SWzuH4tQz3S2uMvewWdgFhBMMB6XJ6C-N31VA6G8d5nizuU0cXNmrbmhqKj5J_vsoCgX8A_I5ASX-25Rs2fArzRbYjskvNBh7UYpDvSvRYO-2b_zN-ZGgVAP2M65uI_Mp0R8Mz7&c=FyJZm3Dezhga70oQiJLWnDHFwEtabGpc3D_VrjD9jBrdF9s53nYPKA==&ch=JSqmLo58G7b_c2vpY2Sqfswbrj0frsSV3y09EilFOOFN6Cin8RvTwA==> as well as every Member of Congress, urging them to preserve the critical graduate student tax benefit provisions. The proposed Senate version of the tax bill maintains many of the education tax credits and tax exemptions that the House bill eliminated."
If you're in graduate school or considering graduate school, and think this it's a bad idea to pay for tax cuts for corporations and some of the wealthiest taxpayers by taxing graduate students, you should write to your elected representatives in Congress. Here's one way to find out who they are: http://act.commoncause.org/site/PageServer?pagename=sunlight_advocacy_list_page.
-- Dr. David W. Inouye Professor Emeritus Department of Biology University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4415 [email protected] Principal Investigator Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory PO Box 519 Crested Butte, CO 81224
