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The idea is it would be forgiven and then education would be free or highly subsidized. It's middle class and lower class that are hardest hit by these loans as it is. Upper class children either don't need the loans or take our less. Yes, it's frustrating to be customer 99 instead of 100, but, I mean, grow up. Education is planting seeds in a garden we'll likely not live to see, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't till the soil just so the next generation has it as difficult as we did. Taxes are going up as it is, I would rather it at least be going towards something meaningful for a change. Free education. Free health care. I'm already paying for it. You're already paying for it. I want what we paid for.
God bless you and your ability to give such a gracious answer.
PPP loan forgiveness already happened, so why should they be the only ones?
How does forgiving debt help rich people? They aren't the ones burdened by it.
The bulk of government disbursements should be paid by those who have the bulk of the disposable income, but tax policy (and the fact that I think you're full of shit based on my own experience with people with master's degrees) aside those disbursements should go to people on the basis of need, perhaps quantified as income, and you could call them "Income Based" or "Income Driven" and...oh wait, that's what the Trump administration just got rid of.
I did a quick Google search which indicates that the average American income for people with a bachelor's degree is about $60,000 (ballpark). That goes up to $80,000 for Masters. Plumbers make about as much as someone with a bachelor's degree. Problem is that $80,000 a year, while a decent living, is not rich. If you think it is rich, god bless you