*Thread* Policy idea. Thoughts including https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🍅" title="Tomate" aria-label="Emoji: Tomate">s welcome. Foreign students pay big differential tuition fees in https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇦" title="Flagge von Kanada" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Kanada">. Eg. domestics pay $62K for computer science coop degree at @UWaterloo; foreign pay $193K. Yet many foreign settle permanently in https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇦" title="Flagge von Kanada" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Kanada"> and many domestic emigrate. 1/3
Recent years have seen a BIG shift to foreign students as source of new immigrants. Wide consensus that leveraging immigration to boost economic growth means attracting the "best and brightest" to settle in https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇦" title="Flagge von Kanada" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Kanada">. But how? 2/3
What if universities identified top foreign graduates and govts provided tax incentive to settle? Would it be feasible to estimate lifetime earnings and allow them to amortize differential fees they paid while in school through income tax deductions on income earned in https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🇨🇦" title="Flagge von Kanada" aria-label="Emoji: Flagge von Kanada"> ? 3/3
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