>Right now, people in states with high tax rates, people with mortgages, and graduate students pay lower federal tax rates than other people who don't share tho

>Right now, people in states with high tax rates, people with mortgages, and graduate students pay lower federal tax rates than other people who don't share those favored statuses. One could more credibly argue that the current system punishes people who don't receive these tax breaks. Bull. Nice repetition of talking-points, but bull. Double-taxing people for living in certain states is certainly a punishment, and in fact one designed to enforce Republican fiscal policies on states that vote Democratic. As to grad-student "tuition", this is like taxing food-delivery personnel on the company van. There is no grad-student "tuition" apart from grad-student labor.