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Student loan borrowers told to default "en masse"
Newsweek ^ | 6/30/23 | MATTHEW IMPELLI

Posted on 07/01/2023 10:54:59 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Some student loan borrowers encouraged others to default on their loans "en masse" following the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to cancel President Joe Biden's student loan debt forgiveness plan, but one expert told Newsweek why that may not be a good idea.

"Okay, thing I can actually talk about: Mass default on student loan debt would be a really effective message and f*** you to this country from the folks most impacted by our constant slide backwards. Just don't pay it. Hit the bricks. En masse," Twitter user Derek Van Dyke wrote.

On Friday, the Supreme Court reached a 6-3 decision to side with Republican-led states and cancel Biden's student debt forgiveness plan, which sought to cancel up to $10,000 in debt for borrowers with an income of $125,000 or less and up to $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients.

Payments on student loan debt have been paused for several months dating back to former President Donald Trump's administration. However, under the recently signed debt ceiling legislation, payments are set to resume in October and interest on the payments will resume in September.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: bidenlies; bidenomics; bribinomics; credit; deadbeats; default; parasites; studentloans; thieves
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well, they should be LOCKED UP “EN MASSE!”

A lot of these deadbeats are working for the US Government, and, AFAIK, have not been punished for not paying back their student loans.

Why, some of them work for the IRS! Imagine that!


101 posted on 07/02/2023 6:14:45 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: MikeSteelBe

The greatest movie of ALL TIME!

102 posted on 07/02/2023 9:23:45 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: DeplorablePaul

Supreme Court checks Biden’s overreach on student loans

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/supreme-court-checks-bidens-overreach-on-student-loans

In refusing to allow President Joe Biden to transfer massive student debt from borrowers to the public by executive fiat, the Supreme Court finished its term with a strong affirmation of legal propriety, linguistic accuracy, and the constitutional separation of powers. As a fortunate byproduct, the court served the cause of financial sanity as well.

If Biden had integrity, the court never would have needed to consider the case at all. From the moment the idea of mass loan forgiveness popped into his head, it was obvious even to him that he did not have the authority to grant it without congressional approval. “I don’t think I have the authority to do it by signing with a pen,” Biden said in the first month of his presidency. Five months later, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) agreed: “People think the president of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness. He does not. He can postpone. He can delay. But he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress.”

Then, in a crass bid for mid-term election votes, Biden pretended to forgive the loans anyway. To do so, he tortured the law and the language beyond recognition.

Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, acting at Biden’s behest, claimed to be forgiving the loans under a statutory provision allowing them to modify the program due to a “national emergency.” The “emergency” the administration cited in 2022 was the COVID-19 pandemic, which by then was already over and thus, arguably, no longer applicable. Rather than merely modify the program, Biden gutted it, turning it from a loan guarantee into a free gift from Uncle Joe.

This is not how law is supposed to work, and not how language is supposed to be read or (mis)used. As Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for a 6-3 majority (which ought to have been unanimous), the word “’modify’ carries ‘a connotation of increment or limitation,’ and must be read to mean ‘to change moderately or in minor fashion.’” In that light, “The secretary’s power under the Act to ‘modify’ does not permit ‘basic and fundamental changes in the scheme’ designed by Congress.”

Roberts wrote: “What the secretary has actually done is draft a new section of the Education Act from scratch by ‘waiving’ provisions root and branch and then filling the empty space with radically new text.”

When ordinary language and ordinary reading of the law do not provide such leeway, but a president tries to claim it anyway, he acts not as an executive but as a one-man legislature. The Constitution separates powers to prevent such concentration of power in one man’s hands.

Even if the debt cancellation were a good idea, which it isn’t, “the question here is not whether something should be done; it is who has the authority to do it,” Roberts wrote.

Before Biden decided to ignore that question, both he and his ally Pelosi acknowledged the answer: Only “an act of Congress” can fundamentally change a program created by an earlier act of Congress. This six-justice majority was right to uphold the Constitution’s separation of powers, and thus the cause of ordered liberty, by rejecting Biden’s abrogation of valid contracts.

While it was not in the court’s purview to consider the practical, financial effects of its decision, the results will also bolster the country and the nation’s finances. A massive forgiveness of college loan obligations was expected to add $430 billion to record federal debt. The burden would have fallen on families of taxpayers who did not get a college education, to the benefit of people whose loans financed their economically rewarding college degrees. What amounts to a massive federal subsidy would only have encouraged colleges to raise tuition costs with the knowledge that the government would backstop tuition inflation.

Protecting both the Constitution and sound economic reason is a good way for the Supreme Court to end its session.


103 posted on 07/02/2023 10:44:12 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: jimtorr

The average person has something like 55K in credit card debt and more than half of Americans couldn’t afford a $400 emergency. A lot of people are going to be defaulting on just about everything.


104 posted on 07/03/2023 7:24:51 AM PDT by riri (What’re y’all talking bout? I just got a new set of Michelins for the house!)
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To: TigersEye

I cannot disagree with your assessment. I call Tombstone the greatest western ever. My father and grandfather served, I was in the Civil Air Patrol. I am partial to war flicks. I like almost all of them: We Were Soldiers, Apocalypse Now. If I had to pick one, I would pick Saving Private Ryan.


105 posted on 07/03/2023 12:08:35 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: MikeSteelBe

I probably like war movies better than any other genre too.
Those you’ve named are great ones.

IMO one of the best things about Tombstone was so many seriously good actors who were well fitted to their characters and delivered in their performances.


106 posted on 07/03/2023 9:42:17 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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