Mitt Romney and fellow Republicans introduce bill that would stop Biden from canceling student-loan

[packman]

Source: BusinessInsider

Student-loan borrowers eager for broad debt forgiveness will be out of luck if Sen. Mitt Romney has anything to say about it.

On Wednesday, the lawmaker from Utah and several of his Republican colleagues introduced a bill that would bar the Biden administration from broadly canceling student-loan debt — a political move the president has been considering since he took office last year.

The Student Loan Accountability Act would prohibit Biden's Education, Justice, and Treasury Departments from taking any action that would cancel or forgive student-loan borrowers' outstanding balances or even portions of those balances, a Wednesday press release said.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/republicans-introduce-bill-to-stop-biden-canceling-student-loan-debt-2022-5?utm_source=reddit.com

[dchill]

1. The True Heart of Mitt Romney.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Indeed, there are very wealthy people who will lose a couple dollars if this happens.

A person with 100 million dollars who will only have 99 million after, is FAR more important to any con including this one than ALL other Americans.

[kimbutgar]

6. A lot of those Mormons in Utah have student loans

BYU isn’t cheap.

This would be a great issue to use against him and Mike Lee up for re election this cycle. Get those kids also riled up to vote for Mullins instead of Lee.

[turbinetree]

2. F**k him.....

then I want him to pay his fucking taxes on all of the money he has at 90%.....pre 1960 levels....

[Mr.Bill]

3. The campaign ads just

write themselves, don't they?

[BlueTsunami2018]

9. You'd be surprised how many people agree with him.

Plenty of left leaning people are against cancelling student debt completely. Particularly those who didn’t go to college or paid their kids’ way through.

This isn’t the winning issue some may think.

[Mr.Bill]

11. It's all just showboating.

There's no way such a bill will become law.

[BlueTsunami2018]

12. Of course not.

It doesn’t have to be. It’s the show that matters. Most people vote on emotion, they don’t vote rationally.

[Escurumbele]

10. If only republican voters paid attention...

I have friends who vote republican for just one issue, abortion, they don't care or know about anything else.

Democrats must do more to inform the public of the consequences of republican's actions they need to be awaken from the fantasy world republicans paint for them.

[FoxNewsSucks]

5. Are those who call Rmoney a "decent" republicon seeing this?

He's still a cold, heartless, greedy, backstabbing MFer.

[AllyCat]

7. I hate republicans. I really do. Oddly, there are many democrats that think

we shouldn't cancel student loan debt because it doesn't directly help them. Fine. I'll just keep paying the stupid bill. When it is paid off, I will be getting the bills for my first to head off to college. Can't wait!

[Diamond_Dog]

8. What's the problem?

Just ask your parents for a loan….

[rurallib]

13. or sell some stock ...............

[Escurumbele]

14. The way to combat student loans is to get your kids very early into sports, but pick sports where

participation is smaller.

For example, Golf is a good sport to get your kids into, the participation numbers are smaller which increases the chances for scholarships. If you have daughters, then even better, because not many girls play golf. Nowadays there are plenty of minority and diverse groups that provide golf and life lessons instructions for free, or for a very low membership payment. They even provide the golf clubs for the kids. The First Tee is one of those, although their golf instruction is not the best but, it is up to the parents to commit to taking them to driving/putting ranges, reading and learning about golf to help their kids become better players. All parents have to remember on any sport is to not push their kids too hard, it must be fun for the kids.

Tennis is another sport that, although there is higher participation than in golf but still not as high as team sports, it is also a wonderful sport, and not very expensive because there are a lot of public courts everywhere. Here is what you do: buy a lot of tennis balls, a "Tennis Balls Hopper", learn to feed balls to your kids, and bingo, just make it fun. Do not try to instruct to much if you are not a good player. Like in golf, there are plenty of tournaments for your kids to play once in a while which are not very expensive.

Helping them prepare for athletic scholarship is a fun process for everyone, and it will save you and your kids a lot of money in the future.

Anyway, I am writing this from experience, I put four kids through college with sports/Academic scholarships, Soccer, Tennis and Golf...IT CAN BE DONE.

NOTE: In today's environment, unless your kid is a superb American Football player, universities will not only demand that your kid is good at the sport, but your chances are greater when their academics are very good as well. Colleges will always choose the kid who is good in academics as well as the sport because there are a lot to choose from.

[JohnSJ]

15. Does he have the votes?

[aocommunalpunch]

16. He can die any time now.

Utterly contemptable drek.

[Javaman]

17. and did mittens say that those loan holders could just sell some of their stocks and bonds?

"Ann Romney in 1994: When Mitt Romney was running for Senate in 1994, his wife gave a candid interview with Jack Thomas of The Boston Globe, published October 20, 1994. She told Thomas that after their Hawaii honeymoon, Mitt transferred to Brigham Young University. Back then, she still thought of that time as tough. But she wasn't as good at describing it, suggesting that it was rough living off stock options:

"They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/08/fact-checking-ann-and-mitt-romneys-hardknock-early-years/324170/

[BlueIdaho]

18. The beatings will continue

Until morale improves… how is this platform of misery supposed to help elect Republicans?

This Old Testament ChristoFacism is may sound good in the back rooms at the NRC but it’s pure poison for America.

[Initech]

19. So they're OK with us being broke and miserable?

[Vinca]

20. There ought to be a law against fat cats in Congress. They have no idea how life is in the

real world. I only hope Democrats running for office in November don't keep this a secret.

[Farmer-Rick]

21. Don't be fooled. The GOP will forgive all student loans and interest when they need to.

Like right before an election to get those student's and their parent's votes. You are conning yourself if you think they wouldn't do it in a heart beat.

Trump was too tied up in getting his scam college tuitions. He was too involved in getting himself a tax cut (and the other filthy rich) to consider forgiving student loans or interest. Otherwise, he would have done it for the votes. The GOPers did it with tax cuts for the rich and Roe v Wade. Little by little they give out more and more tax give away and restrictions on abortions. And it worked as the religiously insane voted for them and they got those donations from the filthy rich.

If you think the GOP wont forgive debts and stop interest to get all those votes then you are very easily fooled. They think it is a great way to get votes. They know it is a huge winning issue (and they try real hard to make it look like a losing issue). And their next puppet president/dictator will be doing it if they get a chance and need those votes.

They just Don't Want Biden and the Democrats to do it.

How silly can you be not to see right through what they are doing to Biden and the Democrats? Do you really think they think they have the votes to pass this Act? even in the House? Canceling student loans and/or interests on loans is a hugely winning issue and will guarantee votes for the party that looks like they are going to do it.

This bill is design to make it look like it's too much of a liberal position to be even considered by GOPers. And many people here and Dems in office are buying it. But the GOP would do it if they thought they could get votes from it. They will use it if they need to get the votes and they don't want Biden or the Dems using it.

Don't buy into the con.

[AZLD4Candidate]

22. Can all the "Mitt is a different type of Republican" nonsense finally stop?

There is no "different type of Republican. They all have an agenda, either greed, narcissism, and/or authoritarianism, they want to force down everyone's throats even if the majority of Americans are completely opposed to it.

[The Jungle 1]

24. We can't afford to do this. We have massive amounts of socialist corporate welfare to pay for

We have to help the job creators. Or is it the filthy maggots who steal our tax dollars.