Elizabeth Warren’s “lobbyist tax” attacks First Amendment in more ways than one
By Michael Clifford, Staff Columnist
October 15, 2019
Warren’s idea is more than an ineffective proposal to curtail government corruption by limiting advocacy spending by organizations.
GOP tax plan threatens grad students the most
By Maggie Durwald | Columnist
December 7, 2017
The Republican Party has once again proven itself to be an enemy of science and higher education — this time in the form of its new tax plan, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. With a vote of 51-49 during the early hours of Dec. 1, the Senate passed the GOP’s latest plan — a draft riddled with last-minute revisions scribbled in its margins — just ho...
Editorial: GOP tax plan would aggrieve grad students
By The Pitt News Editorial Board
November 19, 2017
Republicans acted last week with their tax bill to relinquish the United States’ status as a country with one of the highest official corporate tax rates in the world. In its place, the GOP plans to tax another group at record rates — graduate students. Despite uniform resistance from congressional Democrats, Republica...