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5 Reasons Making Taxpayers Pay Off Student Loans Is A Rotten Idea
The Federalist ^ | November 23, 2020 | Elizabeth Bauer

Posted on 11/23/2020 10:13:33 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: dfwgator

You and I have both been around here a long time.... the amount of “fake news” on the front page here on FR is getting ridiculous.

Gateway Pundit is a loose news aggregator from right leaning outlets, but they are ruining FR.

I went back and watched the Ingraham and Tucker episodes that provoked countless threads based on the characterizations of the Hoft’s with lots of venom here on FR.

To be clear, I am not a Fox viewer any more, but Tucker was his typical snarky self, but most of us would agree with the majority of his monologue. He questions everything and good for him - he wanted evidence. Yes, it was snarky, but most of his monologue was spot on.

Same for the Ingraham monologue that the Hoft’s used to spew their clickbait. Laura was inarticulate, but it appeared to me that she was taken completely out of context regarding AOC. Her point appeared to be that AOC and her ilk are against the billionaire oligarch class just like Trump supporters are. It was not stated clearly, but it was IN NO WAY what the Hoft’s made it out to be and so many here on FR reflexively parroted.

Strange times. Your Gators look pretty good this year. My Vols? Not so much.


21 posted on 11/23/2020 10:38:33 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: volunbeer

LOL, you must be the Tennessee guy in this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqv8ZDOPr2Y


22 posted on 11/23/2020 10:40:44 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So if they wipe out the student loans of the ones that got the past loans, what about the ones that are about to get new loans for their schooling.?


23 posted on 11/23/2020 10:41:40 AM PST by LibFreeUSA ( )
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To: dfwgator

I am.

We are always undefeated in August! :)


24 posted on 11/23/2020 10:42:11 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Kaslin

Anyone who robs Peter to pay Paul can count on Paul’s support ... as long as the checks keep coming in!


25 posted on 11/23/2020 10:44:40 AM PST by null and void (If a country fixed a national election overnight like America just did, we would probably invade it.)
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To: volunbeer

It’s a weird year, there’s a big difference in playing UT in Neyland with a couple of thousand people in the stands, as opposed to 100K+.


26 posted on 11/23/2020 10:45:06 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

This year has sucked. Period.

Neyland definitely looks a lot different this year as does Ben Hill Griffin.

Weird year.


27 posted on 11/23/2020 10:48:47 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Kaslin
I have to agree with those who posted to let the Universities cover the student loans.
If THEY had to worry about getting repayment from a student who earned a meaningless degree in a field no one is hiring in, they might reconsider offering that fluff course in the first place.
Hey, maybe you really LOVE teaching it, or your students LOVE learning all about Medieval Gender Studies, but don't make ME pay for it.
28 posted on 11/23/2020 10:49:14 AM PST by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: volunbeer

I must say, it’s nice to have a QB again.


29 posted on 11/23/2020 10:50:00 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kaslin

MOST Taxpayers (and MOST VOTERS) are Trump supporters. Making them pay off student loans is purely a punishment for them. That’s all the reason the rats need.


30 posted on 11/23/2020 10:52:05 AM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: LibFreeUSA

I. DON’T. CARE.

As long as it comes out of the hide of the universities.

The universities hand out student loans like candy because they have no responsibility once the loan is made. They get the money and the loan gets repaid to somebody else.

This makes potential students nothing more than pockets to be picked for the universities.

Once the universities have skin in the game they will stop making loans for degrees in gender studies and other nonsense.

Or go out of business, which is fine with me.


31 posted on 11/23/2020 10:54:09 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let ‘em pay from their endowments.


32 posted on 11/23/2020 10:54:46 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Kaslin

More op-ed pieces that will accomplish nothing. Back to normal for the deskbound “conservatives”.

I can their keyboards clicking away as they are herded into the boxcars.


33 posted on 11/23/2020 10:55:47 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: dfwgator

Yeah, that kid is a baller. That TE is ridiculously good.

UT has some building blocks, but we are hurting at QB and our play-calling is the system and not based our personnel.


34 posted on 11/23/2020 11:06:53 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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#6, It's a poke in the eye to everyone who...

(a) repaid their college loan,

(b) worked through college, and

(c) served honorably in the US Military, and used the GI Bill for financial assistance in college.

Yup, that's me for all three of the above (although my total indebtedness after grad school was only about $200.)

35 posted on 11/23/2020 11:09:54 AM PST by Seaplaner
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To: Kaslin

On the other hand, I’m all for confiscating assets from universities to pay off the loans. Start with the Ivy League endowments.


36 posted on 11/23/2020 11:19:34 AM PST by Salman (You're paranoid until they do it. Then you're evil for not wanting it.)
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To: dfwgator

That’s what I said in my very first comment.


37 posted on 11/23/2020 11:31:33 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: Kaslin

So I let my kids borrow money from me to pay their tuition. (The schools did not offer in house financing).

So this means the Fed is going to pay me directly for the monies I loaned to them to pay their tuition?

Is there a form of something I need to fill out for reimbursement?


38 posted on 11/23/2020 11:35:34 AM PST by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: volunbeer
We are always undefeated in August! :)


39 posted on 11/23/2020 12:07:06 PM PST by null and void (If a country fixed a national election overnight like America just did, we would probably invade it.)
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To: Kaslin
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

Does this mean the fix is already in on the Georgia Senate races?

40 posted on 11/23/2020 12:24:57 PM PST by libertylover (Election 2020: Make America Great Again or Burn it to the Ground. Choose one. Voter fraud is treason)
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