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Turns out the cost of the proposed student debt foregiveness will simply be added to the national debt

Of all the paying for it proposals the one I like best was that private universities will pay for it.

Some economists who track federal spending and workforce issues panned Biden’s plan as offering unnecessary aid to many graduates who are financially well-off, potentially stoking inflation and running up deficits as borrowing costs rise.
They also said the move was puzzling just after the administration worked to bring down deficits in the newly signed “Inflation Reduction Act” with a 15% minimum corporate tax and new enforcement funding for the Internal Revenue Service. read more
The about-face just a week later “is bad economic policy,” said Alan Auerbach, a public finance economist at the University of California, Berkeley. “To switch from saying ‘we’re doing this in a responsible manner’ to turning around and blowing all the money they saved and more, from a policy perspective, it makes no sense.”


https://yournews.com/2022/08/29/2403471/analysis-bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-will-erase-deficit-reduction-of/

Having all Americans including those who never went to university or never took a loan or those who took loans and paid them in full have to pay for giving money to a select few is grossly unfair. How anyone can logically and honestly deny that is malarkey to quote a friend.

Instead the money would be better used making 2 years of community college free for every American citizen (no illegals). Sanders is correct about this at least.
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It’s long been added to the debt. 1/3 of all student loan borrowers have defaulted. DOE has paid off the guarantee, the lender, solid the notes to collections, and eaten the loss.

I’m not sure what the difference between defaulting on a student loan and any other loan is. We all pay in either case.
With defaults the credit score is dinged so the non payer at least has consequences. @CopperCicada
sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M
@jackjjackson Can't wait 'till the defaulters realize they gotta pay taxes in it, should be quite enjoyable
Only state income tax not federal so in income tax free states they skate on thst too. @sunsporter1649