Fucking hate the Imperialist Democratic Party, and think there's basically no chance they'll actually pass meaningful student debt relief under Biden.

But a universal vanquishing of the first $50,000 held in student debt by graduates will meaningfully improve the conditions of tens of millions of Americans; for both graduates, and those who did never attended a post-secondary institution alike.

57% of Americans support "forgiving up to $50,000 in student loans for individuals who live in households that make less than $250,000 a year", including a majority of those who never attended a College.

This just seems rich considering Chapo often mocked liberals who were incapable of admitting that Trump can do good things at times, and now they may fall into the same trap of opposing on instinct everything coming from the Biden camp.

Actually people should keep suffering, because stopping it with the stroke of a pen would alienate the working class

  • T_Doug [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    In the same speech by Chuck Schumer where he proposes this, he also indicates support for: a $15 Federal minimum wage, a Massive Federal Infrastructure/Jobs program targeted at poor people and ex-cons, Immigration Reform, Criminal Justice Reform, and strengthening the Labour movement. All of these would be good policy.

    Now I'm sure very little of that has a chance of being passed, it's almost certainly just an attempt to bring dissatisfied Bernie/AOC supporters back into the arms of the Democratic Party, but it's not as though Schumer only proposed student debt forgiveness in isolation.

    • Homestar440 [he/him]
      1·
      4 years ago

      Idk man, I'm pretty fucking jaded at this point, this just looks like the ol' deficit gambit. The dems are gonna pretend to actually be for decent policies, pretty soon you'll begin hearing that the federal deficit and debt is out of control, and things are gonna need to be cut. Most likely outcome is the dems agree to a drastic cut in social security in exchange for a heavily means tested partial student loan debt relief program.