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Showing Original Post only (View all)This argument about having paid your loans and so should everybody else [View all]
is ridiculous. We are democrats, we aim at advancing towards a more progressive society where you don't forfeit your financial future to get an education.
Forgiving loans and ultimately addressing educational costs is the way to go.
When social security was enacted, it was to address the issue of retired elderly people ending up destitute and homeless.
People could have and some did say back then that they made do without it before so why should we pay for it ?
Luckily for us , it passed. I view student loans forgiveness the same way. I paid mine and I was able to do so. I do not resent that other people in less fortunate situations get their student loans reduced or forgiven. I welcome it .
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This argument about having paid your loans and so should everybody else [View all]
drray23
Aug 2022
OP
If an unfair system stops being unfair, somebody's going to take it in the shorts
gratuitous
Aug 2022
#4
Exactly. I graduated in 1995. When I started, tuition was $54 a credit hour. when I finished
Ray Bruns
Aug 2022
#18
Check out Norway: College students, even foreign ones, pay no tuition at all.
Ocelot II
Aug 2022
#56
I am glad to see money directed toward young people. We certainly left them with a screwed world.
NNadir
Aug 2022
#13
It is always better to give tax money to each other than to corporations & their investors.
NullTuples
Aug 2022
#20