When Congress voted in May to restart student loan payments this fall — and then the Supreme Court overturned President Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan in…

    • Bramble Dog
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      110 months ago

      The rich aren’t the ones generally taking out the student loans through the federal program.

      Most rich people schools are also private, so don’t qualify for most loans through federal programs.

      This is an incredibly dishonest argument.

        • Bramble Dog
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          210 months ago

          What percentage of people with student loans actually can afford it though? If your argument is that all of us are too rich to get hand outs, what are you casing that off of?

            • Bramble Dog
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              210 months ago

              Your argument is that they are both too rich to deserve forgiveness, but also only have themselves to blame for being too poor to pay back their loan.

              I guess I would say that only a reactionary would argue the complete truth of both at once. Ironically, if the people in debt were the truly rich as you 50% claim to believe, they would have gotten their way, and you likely would have supported it.

            • Bramble Dog
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              210 months ago

              It’s odd to me, when a landlord takes out a loan to buy another property, hypothetical future income is not barring him from having those loans written off, and nothing in your history here that I can find suggests you believe landlords should be put into the same situation as student loan repayers.

              If people with student loans were as rich as your claim, the fiscal policy would already be set up to benefit them, but the fact that your argument hinges on denying them the very benefits you allow rich people to have in our system I think pretty effectively shows you don’t actually believe this, are merely just a reactionary.