Taxing graduate tuition waivers

Guilty cocker spaniels eating table scraps, and when we rolled over how our masters clapped. Well it felt so good we wanted more of that, but when the program failed they defensively laughed.
"we did things just how you asked, don't try takin' us to task."
You didn't bite a face, no just a mask. So happy halloween.

Maybe it's time to reflect on the poor life choices that have brought you into your bad position and start making better decisions.

>graduate student tuition waivers will now be considered taxable income.

I'm interested in the logic here, what exactly is the end game to taxing graduate tuition waivers? Is there a benefit to such a move outside being a pure cash grab?

Wouldn't you want to place more incentive in Americans to investing in doctoral research? Or did Republicans finally give up and decided to let China overtake America in another field of interest?

That's less tax money that needs to come from corporations.

Grad students aren't exactly junkies who can't hold down a job at McDonalds. They put up with a low standard of living for a few years to get educated and be among the best in their fields.

>Wouldn't you want to place more incentive in Americans to investing in doctoral research?
Nope. Incentives should be result oriented, not pursuit oriented. PhDs don't mean shit for society when PhD holders aren't accomplishing things.

I'm dealing with probate bullshit. Each year they require you to submit a manifest of assets and income, and you must pay a filing fee to do so. In addition to 250 dollars up front to do anything, myriad transfer taxes for every conceivable asset in the estate.

Taxing the taxed tax tax tax. Then they screw you for payroll too, and make you wait a year to have disability while you're dying. Then they rape you out of all that social security they sucked out of you. Good ol' Teddy Roosevelt said his greatest achievement was "saving capitalism". All these programs at the time did come at a slight cost to the rich, sometimes you have to give a little so you won't lose it all, but at this point all these systems are just another mechanism to siphon money out of the upper middle class. Life support, deliberately. Where do people's welfare, food stamps, etc come from? The middle (lower) class. Where does it go? The very entities consolidating wealth to begin with.

It's all trash.

Do you not think PhDs contribute to society? Even if I grant you that PhDs in academia all sit around doing theoretical bullshit all day and don't contribute, still about half of PhDs (in physics anyway, not familiar with other fields) find work outside academia right out of grad school.

>Nope. Incentives should be result oriented, not pursuit oriented.
You liberal niggers need to kill yourselves. You can't tell the difference between (((profits))) and results.

Clinton-era "results oriented" regulations mutated NSF, DARPA, NIH into development outfits and have crippled American scientific research.

Did you know, millenial faggot, that by today's "results-oriented" standards, the Laser would never have been funded because it had no practical application at the time of its invention?

If I make $0/yr am I somehow going to pay tax for making $14,000?