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by uberman 1483 days ago
Why should you be paid to attend your classes or to conduct your own research? That is like asking to be paid to go to the gym.

If your employer pays more that 5k of your tuition then you own tax on it so the US tax system clearly sees tuition as a benefit. You can call BS on the cost of tuition but that does not fundamentally change the fact that a waived charge is a benefit. The US tax system was a hairs breath away from making all tuition benefits even institutional grants at the undergraduate level taxable.