> The GOP plan does away with the student tax deduction, not to simplify matters, but to punish intellectualism since they're not voting GOP anyway. You can tel

> The GOP plan does away with the student tax deduction, not to simplify matters, but to punish intellectualism since they're not voting GOP anyway. You can tell, because if they actually wanted to help people, there would have to have been long discussions with heads of universities to come up with a plan to not harm grad students. Obviously, that didn't happen. Alternatively, they didn't have much confidence that the folks who are exploiting grad students would be good consultants about grad student welfare. And failing that, there are other hypotheses--the current GOP is incompetent when it comes to executing its own agenda. The GOP could generally want to lower/simplify taxes (and I think it does), and it is merely executing poorly.