The idea is that the people who paid their loans need it just as much as the people who didn't, but people who paid them off early aren't eligible for loan forgiveness.
This is a solvable problem, and opposing student loan reform/forgiveness on these grounds is an overreaction.
The confusing part for me here though is that they are not put at a disadvantage by someone else not having crippling debt.
I honestly think it’s more of “I had to suffer and so should you” mentality despite the fact that someone being able to pay off their loans they’re in a better position financially than someone who has no hope of paying them off.
Yes I think that liberal ideology causes them to have that mindset. I do think that there should be something like "forgive 10k (or more ofc) student debt and also a $10k stipend to anyone who paid off their loans in the last 5 years".
I mean it all is means-tested in that you have to have the debt to get the relief but setting some arbitrary period of time of when the final payment was made just seems weird. Everyone who isn’t getting the money is gonna feel screwed either way
Oh sure, that's fair I guess. The cutoff is going to be somewhere. The ideal solution is to not approach education (and the financialization of it) like this in the first place.
The idea is that the people who paid their loans need it just as much as the people who didn't, but people who paid them off early aren't eligible for loan forgiveness.
This is a solvable problem, and opposing student loan reform/forgiveness on these grounds is an overreaction.
The confusing part for me here though is that they are not put at a disadvantage by someone else not having crippling debt.
I honestly think it’s more of “I had to suffer and so should you” mentality despite the fact that someone being able to pay off their loans they’re in a better position financially than someone who has no hope of paying them off.
Yes I think that liberal ideology causes them to have that mindset. I do think that there should be something like "forgive 10k (or more ofc) student debt and also a $10k stipend to anyone who paid off their loans in the last 5 years".
Possibly but then it seems like means testing the aid.
How so?
I mean it all is means-tested in that you have to have the debt to get the relief but setting some arbitrary period of time of when the final payment was made just seems weird. Everyone who isn’t getting the money is gonna feel screwed either way
Oh sure, that's fair I guess. The cutoff is going to be somewhere. The ideal solution is to not approach education (and the financialization of it) like this in the first place.
Our capitalist culture makes us like crabs in a bucket. The worst crab party.
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Ya sure, I'm trying to keep in grounded in what we can reasonably expect from.Biden, but you're not wrong.