Tax the children well...
Should college students pay taxes in the city they are attending school?
It is obvious that they should pay some taxes as might apply to anyone else (ie, sales tax). However, should their education be taxed and if so, what model should be used?
Taxes, as they are in the US, are levied according to ability to pay. The concept of taxation with representation is no longer applicable. When did the Fed ask you if it was OK to increase the money supply, which of course leads to inflation, thereby devaluing your money? There is no moral reason why rich should pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than the poor except that others impose it on the rich and forgive the poor. It is pure expediency to get more money, or perhaps, a retribution against those who would enrich themselves through hard or smart work.
There is no reason to assume a priori that no college students can pay extra money. Students are not a protected class and are not minors. They can be drafted and can die defending our country. What model should be used?
Based on the Obama Peace Prize, one could tax students based upon their potential income. An English major could be taxed at a low amount while a computer geek could be taxed more heavily.
One could tax them based upon the concept that their job is to learn, which means they have a job. The tax would then be based on the occupation tax. In Pittsburgh, it is $52.00/yr.
One could tax the education, a new concept. This would be an "education tax", sort of the opposite of an educational grant. Mayor Ravenstahl has proposed a 1% tax. This opens a whole arena for new taxation.
Whatever good deeds students do in the community should not be a reason not to tax them, as many taxpayers also perform good deeds.
Who is opposing the taxation of student tuition? Conservatives because they believe that taxation of education is wrong-headed, interfering with the freedom of individuals to get a good start in life and middle class liberals because it is their children who go to college and when government needs money for programs they believe in, they want others to pay for it.
For once, hypocrisy and morality are on the same side.
It is obvious that they should pay some taxes as might apply to anyone else (ie, sales tax). However, should their education be taxed and if so, what model should be used?
Taxes, as they are in the US, are levied according to ability to pay. The concept of taxation with representation is no longer applicable. When did the Fed ask you if it was OK to increase the money supply, which of course leads to inflation, thereby devaluing your money? There is no moral reason why rich should pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than the poor except that others impose it on the rich and forgive the poor. It is pure expediency to get more money, or perhaps, a retribution against those who would enrich themselves through hard or smart work.
There is no reason to assume a priori that no college students can pay extra money. Students are not a protected class and are not minors. They can be drafted and can die defending our country. What model should be used?
Based on the Obama Peace Prize, one could tax students based upon their potential income. An English major could be taxed at a low amount while a computer geek could be taxed more heavily.
One could tax them based upon the concept that their job is to learn, which means they have a job. The tax would then be based on the occupation tax. In Pittsburgh, it is $52.00/yr.
One could tax the education, a new concept. This would be an "education tax", sort of the opposite of an educational grant. Mayor Ravenstahl has proposed a 1% tax. This opens a whole arena for new taxation.
Whatever good deeds students do in the community should not be a reason not to tax them, as many taxpayers also perform good deeds.
Who is opposing the taxation of student tuition? Conservatives because they believe that taxation of education is wrong-headed, interfering with the freedom of individuals to get a good start in life and middle class liberals because it is their children who go to college and when government needs money for programs they believe in, they want others to pay for it.
For once, hypocrisy and morality are on the same side.
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