You don't need to be a Republican to realize how bad a plan it would be for Pittsburgh to chase students away with taxes to the government. We all know how expensive college was... and most of us here have a hard time paying our loans back as is. Further government loans seem to just enable colleges to hike up the price of tuitions, but here is a fee I never saw coming. they should be making incentives for bringing business and hence jobs to the city. Instead the plan is now to chase it away.http://www.cmu.edu/alumni/images/sgovttaxemail.pdf
"Local government officials are in the process of approving an operating budget for fiscal year 2010. Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl has proposed taxing college and professional students for the privilege of receiving an education in the city. The proposed tax will charge students in the city at a rate of 1% of their yearly tuition - which, at Carnegie Mellon, would mean roughly a $400 tax on most students."
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