Dispiriting talk with my fox news parents today…..

Forbes reports today that the GOP tax plan eliminates medical device deductions for the disabled, deductions for businesses who install improvements like wheelchair ramps etc…and other reporting has it that the GOP is targeting grad school tuition help(!!!!)

Basically, if you are a low income or middle income grad student (especially in the hard sciences), you generally get your tuition paid for in an arrangement where you work as a research assistant or geology 101 teacher etc and you live on a small stipend that is already taxed while your tuition is provided.

That tuition cost is set to be taxed and the bill would be astronomical. You are not getting income per se….you are not being paid, but you would still have to pony up thousands of dollars you do not have and that your stipend could not possibly cover.

Of course my dad thought this was not a problem and godammit why the hell do you expect to get do much stuff for free and pay your own damned way to school and don’t expect me to pay your damned school and hell no we never deducted your moms wheelchair expense too many damned freeloaders what do you take us for anyway??!!

My dad literally has no problem kicking low income people out of grad school if they cannot afford a tax hike that is being used to pay for upper income tax cuts. He seems to think that private endowment monies at schools are being robbed out of his pocket and by God he isn’t going to pay for freeloaders to go to college.

Oh, and disabled people shouldn’t get a break either.