Republican Proposal Would Make College Scholarships Taxable Income

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : In a leaked document of programs and existing tax breaks Republicans are considering changing to help pay for continuing the 2017 tax cuts, making all scholarships and fellowships taxable income stands out as a proposal that would immediately make college more expensive for the millions of students who receive grants and scholarships to help pay their tuition and fees.
55% : Republican lawmakers are considering a change to tax policy would make college more expensive for students receiving grants and scholarships to help pay their tuition bill.
54% : Tuition is expensive and students are constantly told that one way they can help make it less expensive is to get good grades so they can win a scholarship.
52% : The tax bills from changing how scholarships are treated could also land on parents, if they claim their college aged student as a dependent for tax purposes.
51% : These proposals are all a long way from becoming law, so nothing has changed yet, but they do indicate a willingness from Republicans to cut tax breaks for scholarships that help millions of students, many of them from low- and middle-income families pay for college, in order to extend tax breaks that provide much greater benefits to wealthy families than low income ones.
42% : Lower income students are more likely to attend community colleges and public universities with lower tuition, reducing the risk of a tax bill if scholarship were made taxable.

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