• CrimsonSage [any]
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    3 years ago

    Really starting to piss me off. Like don't get me wrong, I like not paying for bullshit loans, but I have been scraping up cash to pay in a big lump sum when this shit comes due and they keep pushing it off. If they aren't going to make us pay it tell us and I will put it into my retirement account, what little there is of it. If you are going to make us pay it say so and I will just pay it down now. Keeping cash on hand with this inflation is just fucking burning money.

      • CrimsonSage [any]
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        3 years ago

        Hey thanks Chairman! That's better advice than Biden has ever given me. How do you know so much about American savings law anyway aren't you supposed to be a Marxist?

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          3 years ago

          The more you know about American tax law, the more radicalized it makes you.

          The most shameless AnCap I know - perennial failed libertarian candidate Kathie Glass - is a plaintiff's attorney. And some of the most hard-left folks I know - working down at Lone Star Legal Aid - are outright socialist.

      • Lundi [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Genuine question: if, say, I saved up the entire lumped sum needed to clear my debt (which uh I have), is it even worth paying it back in a lump sum or otherwise?

    • MikeHockempalz [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They're going to make us pay eventually. If they actually forgave the debt, that would be a Good Thing, and we know that won't happen in America

    • rafflesia [she/her, doe/deer]
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      3 years ago

      This. This will-they won't-they bullshit is somehow even more anxiety inducing than if they just straight up said they were going to shake me down in 5 months for all the money.

    • redfern45 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      The only “positive” for me is my partner has a shit ton of private student loan debt at a lousy interest rate so we just put what my monthly payment would be into theirs.

    • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      If you’re ok with the investment risk you can always put it in a slit you cut in your mattress and you can withdraw your contributions any time with no penalty or tax implications. Idk if you can buy I-bonds (Treasury inflation indexed bonds) in a mattress bank, but either way inflation is paying 7% right now, cause that's the inflation number.