{"id":9366,"date":"2017-11-21T15:50:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T19:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=9366"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T17:45:27","slug":"tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/tax\/","title":{"rendered":"K President: Congressional Plan a &#8216;Tax on Knowledge&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/about\/gonzalez\/\">President Jorge G. Gonzalez<\/a> is among the higher-education officials raising concern for a tax plan under consideration in Congress.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7053\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7053 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/01\/orgeGonzalezThumb-1.png\" alt=\"Kalamazoo College President Jorge G. 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Gonzalez was interviewed Monday, Nov. 20, on Michigan Radio&#8217;s &#8220;Stateside&#8221; program.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In an interview Monday on <a href=\"http:\/\/michiganradio.org\/post\/kalamazoo-college-president-it-s-baffling-congress-trying-impose-tax-knowledge\">Michigan Radio\u2019s \u201cStateside\u201d program<\/a>, Gonzalez said the provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act currently under consideration are alarming because they could make college more expensive and less accessible for students and their families.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s baffling to me that in a time when we are in the era of the knowledge economy, Congress is trying to impose a tax on knowledge,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michiganradio.org\/post\/kalamazoo-college-president-it-s-baffling-congress-trying-impose-tax-knowledge\">Hear a podcast<\/a> of the entire \u201cStateside\u201d interview or learn more about the plan from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acenet.edu\/Pages\/Higher-Education-and-Tax-Reform.aspx\">American Council on Education<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College President Jorge G. Gonzalez is among the higher-education officials raising concern for a tax plan under consideration in Congress. In an interview Monday on Michigan Radio\u2019s \u201cStateside\u201d program, Gonzalez said the provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act currently under consideration are alarming because they could make college more expensive and less [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":7053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-9366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Tax Plan Concerns K President - News and Events - Kalamazoo College<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"K President Jorge G. 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Gonzalez<\/a> is among the higher-education officials raising concern for a tax plan under consideration in Congress.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7053\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7053 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2016\/01\/orgeGonzalezThumb-1.png\" alt=\"Kalamazoo College President Jorge G. Gonzalez on tax plan\" width=\"243\" height=\"252\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kalamazoo College President Jorge G. 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