Apparently the mayor of Providence, RI wants to impose a $150/semester tax on full-time university students who attend one of the city's four colleges, including Brown.
You can read the story in full here.
I guess, Mayor David Cicilline hasn't heard of "starving students." I mean, for the college kids it might or might not be a big deal, but 300 bucks a year could conceivably be a real dealbreaker for graduate students living off of stipends.
In completely unrelated news: look at these cute tiger cubs! I only bring it up because they're picture was randomly on the webpage with the story about Rhode Island...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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Well, I guess it's time the ivory tower types got a taste of what "tax the rich" tribalism looks like when you're on the receiving end.
But AC, this isn't a tax the rich scheme... It's a head tax that falls on all students, whether they're old money that came over on the Mayflower and have a six-generational legacy, or if they're poor inner-city children of immigrants who spent their weekends and evenings working in a restaurant to help their parents make ends meet.
In addition to being a highly regressive tax, which is in and of itself fundamentally unfair, this tax creates an incentive for people to avoid going to school in Providence. Even if you want to tax students, this is a rather nonsensical way of doing it...
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