Posted on 12/03/2020 9:10:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I guess I’m mistaken in thinking the government issues these loans. Is it just that the government guarantees them?
RE: I never had a loan and I am 60 years old.
Not even a mortgage?
Reparations for people who bet on themselves and lost because they suck? Can we do that for poker too? Or Monopoly, if I land on Park Place with 4 houses I’ll just take money from the bank to pay it.
Never had a loan for education.
A lefty writer quotes lefty sources to come to a conclusion supported by lefties. This is not news.
His main argument: Paying off the debt would be a boon to the economy.
This is true of any kind of debt. By definition.
Why would student debt be special? Why should it be special?
Any discussion of student debt forgiveness should start with the question: Did the students receive a benefit? Yes or no?
The idea was floated to college kids, they demanded it, now they’re being thrown a small tease of the large prize to keep them on the democrat hook for many election cycles.
When this scheme adversely affects banks will we be told again they’re “too big to fail”?
Never ever cancel the debt. Liquidate college assets real property and endowment s to pay the debt..
And then the snowflakes get $10k in forgiven debt...better known ads income. Unless they give everyone a tax credit for the tax liability.
That is the ONLY way it becomes fair.
NO!
I paid for mine, my wife paid for hers, and our kids paid for theirs!
Deadbeat college kids and their deadbeat parents can pay for theirs!
Poor suffering American taxpayers DO NOT WANT TO PAY DEADBEAT COLLEGE STUDENT EXPENSES!
I was thinking, whenever they state something stupid like, “its only fair”, the game should be to add “, comrade” to the sentence.
That will more accurately describe what they actually mean.
What about mortgage debt? Housing is a right!
What about medical debt? Health is a right!
What about credit card debt? Shopping is a right!
Where does this end?
I had this very conversation with my grad school daughter the other day. She was telling me that healthcare was a right.
I asked her if she thought her mother (who works at a hospital) should be paid a salary.
Of course, she said.
I pointed out that the 13th amendment meant that there was not inherent “right” to someone else’s labor. And that is what healthcare is...other people’s labor at school and then every day in practice.
They have no more right to healthcare labor than a black man’s labor in 1865.
They took over the entire system during Obama...i think.
I agree wholeheartedly. They willingly took on this debt. Now they can pay it back! Why should I pay for these people's educations via my taxes?
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