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Biden's student loan 'forgiveness' plan is a raw deal for taxpayers
FOX News.com ^ | May 13, 2022 | Lindsey M. Burke , E.J. Antoni

Posted on 05/13/2022 12:04:50 PM PDT by Kaslin

Biden should abandon misguided pursuit of student loan forgiveness

The Biden administration has extended the "pause" on student loan payments for a sixth time. By the time the latest pause ends, those who took out student loans will have been able to go 30 months—two-and-a-half years—without making a single payment nor accruing any new interest.

It’s a raw deal for taxpayers. The Department of Education estimates that, each month, they are losing over $200 billion in repayments and another $5 billion in accrued interest. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the pause has cost taxpayers more than $130 billion in interest payments.

As if that were not sufficient largesse, President Biden is now considering outright "forgiveness" of some portion of all student loan balances. Here, "forgiveness" is a euphemism for a taxpayer-funded bailout. It’s bad policy from any angle.

First, it’s incredibly regressive. The Urban Institute found that "most outstanding student loan debt is held by people with relatively high incomes. … [It] is disproportionately concentrated among the well off." While lower-income households make a up a larger share of borrowers, upper-income households make up a larger share of outstanding student loan debt. That’s because nearly half (48 percent) of student loan debt is held by households whose borrowers earned graduate degrees. Professional degree holders (doctors and lawyers, for example) earn a median annual salary of $96,772, far more than those who did not attend or graduate college.

The more generous student loan forgiveness becomes, the more it benefits upper income earners. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York recently estimated that 30 percent of loan forgiveness would go to borrowers from high-income neighborhoods.

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1 posted on 05/13/2022 12:04:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Not news.

America Last.


2 posted on 05/13/2022 12:05:41 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Kaslin

Of course it is.

When will be rid of resident Huggies?


3 posted on 05/13/2022 12:07:17 PM PDT by sauropod ("We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they are elected. Don’t you?" Why? "It saves time.”)
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To: Kaslin

Anyone who has worked without a college education should not have to pay for others to relieve them of their decision to take on college debt - never!


4 posted on 05/13/2022 12:07:31 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: Kaslin

Everything the Uniparty pushes is a disaster for taxpaying citizens.

How much are illegal aliens costing us (besides the loss of our country)?


5 posted on 05/13/2022 12:07:34 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Of course …what else would ANYONE expect from this fraudulent idiot ‘administration’…


6 posted on 05/13/2022 12:08:05 PM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: TnTnTn

Bidens trying to “buy” student voters with this scam to the public.


7 posted on 05/13/2022 12:09:01 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: Kaslin
This is how bad of an issue this is for the Dimms. This was Paul Begala, who is a shill of all shills for Dimms, commenting about this being a political issue.

“We Democrats have a lab — two labs actually, secret labs — one in Berkeley and one in Brooklyn, where we come up with ideas to completely piss off the working class, and it’s working wonderfully.”

8 posted on 05/13/2022 12:09:03 PM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: Kaslin
Let the Universities "forgive" student loans.

They're the ones who've defrauded the students!

9 posted on 05/13/2022 12:09:54 PM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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To: G Larry

Santa Claus has elves making toys. The Democrats buy their gifts with the money from others.


10 posted on 05/13/2022 12:12:49 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Kaslin

Nothing is free, it all gets paid for.

You’re asking people who didn’t go to college to pay for your college.

You’re asking people who went to much more affordable community college and trade schools to pay for your college.

You’re asking people who paid off their loans to pay for yours too.

There’s nothing fair about this.


11 posted on 05/13/2022 12:14:08 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: Kaslin

Just like everything else he’s done.


12 posted on 05/13/2022 12:15:15 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Why can’t they stick to calling us racists?


13 posted on 05/13/2022 12:15:22 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Kaslin

Buying votes with OPM.
Cause we’re a democracy.


14 posted on 05/13/2022 12:23:49 PM PDT by Leep (Don't say God.)
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To: Kaslin
There are several problems with student loans and loan forgiveness.
15 posted on 05/13/2022 12:24:22 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: caww
Anyone who has worked without a college education should not have to pay for others to relieve them of their decision to take on college debt - never!

Recent legal immigrants like Jose and Maria who pick strawberries for a living should be forced to subsidies the life stiles and education of the beautiful people.

And the dems wonder why nobody likes them, I hope they keep this up.

16 posted on 05/13/2022 12:54:17 PM PDT by usurper
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To: Kaslin
Be sure to vote democrat if you think having clerks, cooks, seamstresses, farmers, garbage collectors, welders,
mechanics, plumbers, active military and other hard workers pay off college loans for college grad welchers.


17 posted on 05/13/2022 12:59:13 PM PDT by Iron Munro ( Joe Biden - Inventor Of The First New Language since Esperanto)
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To: Kaslin

My mortgage self identifies as a student loan...


18 posted on 05/13/2022 12:59:35 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style )
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To: Kaslin
most outstanding student loan debt is held by people with relatively high incomes

Not me. But my lack of getting a higher paying job is because none of the credits I earned at a local community college would not transfer to bigger colleges, say, Purdue University, Indiana University, etc. Ivy Tech lied to me and 6 years worth of college went down the drain.

19 posted on 05/13/2022 1:02:33 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Kaslin

Well, it’s not Biden’s money, and it’s not the money of the democrats advocating for it, and it’s not the students’ money, so, why not get those student loans paid off?

It’s very easy spending OTM (other people’s money).

All of that will backfire on the students, when they find out that getting the country into deeper debt means that, they’ll be either taxed at higher rates when they start working, or will have a very hard time finding jobs because companies will have to go out of business because they have to pay higher taxes because of those student loans adding to the debt.


20 posted on 05/13/2022 1:13:55 PM PDT by adorno
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