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Best Kat Katharine L. Leigh My Linkedin <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/katharine-leigh/9a/175/482/en> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 7:05 PM, David Inouye <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 [email protected] > > Principal Investigator > Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory > PO Box 519 > Crested Butte, CO 81224 > >
