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From: jl@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Juan Leon)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Foreign students, taxation, discrimination
Message-ID: <3873@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 88 19:56:09 GMT
Reply-To: jl@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Juan Leon)
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> *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.edu: 12-Dec-88 Re: Student and Course Inte.. Kathy*
> *Pividal@vax1.acs.u (1247)*
> In article <842@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>  Many of the foreign students (graduate) are not only benefitting
> from the American educational system

Also, the "American educational system" (whatever that is) is
benefitting from the foreign students, who are harming the
educational system in their home countries.>

> but are being supported (tuition
> and stipend) by American federal agencies (NSF, DoD, DoE, NIH, etc.).

Not true.  Foreign students do not get fellowships or any
direct money from any agency remotely associated with the
U.S. government.  They may be benefitting from funds given
to a whole department, but the department (and the US) is
getting something in return.>


> Because of the new tax law, I (an American Graduate student) have to pay
> the US goverment taxes on my stipend, however the foreign students on
> student visas pay no taxes to the US government even though their source
> and amount of funding is identical to mine.

Foreign students pay taxes too.  Not only that, but they don't
get the zero-tax bracket, which implies they end up paying
more taxes than American students.  To that, add the fact
that foreign students can get no money from federal agencies,
and are very restricted in their choice of jobs.  They also cannot get most of
the benefits derived from paying taxes.
Again, their funding is not the same as yours.>

>  Explain why this is not financial
> discrimination against American students.
Explain why this is not financial discrimination against foreign
students.

 Juan Leon                              jl@cs.cmu.edu
Computer Science Department             leon+@andrew.bitnet
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pa.



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