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GOP plan to tax college endowments like Yale's and Harvard's would be neither fair nor effective

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Economist and Research Scientist, The Ohio State University
imageHarvard, located along the Charles River in Cambridge, boasts the largest endowment at $37.6 billion. Jorge Salcedo/Shutterstock.com

Tucked away in the recently announced GOP tax bill is a small item you may have missed: a new tax on university endowments. As I have spent decades working in higher education, the proposal immediately piqued my...

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