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Do you support the universal cancellation of student debt?

Also, do you think the (mostly) younger generation deserves a break?
If possible, would you elaborate on your answer?
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Extant1 · M
A further symptom of what our founding fathers feared. What happens when people no longer vote for what is best for society at large, and begin to vote themselves advantages … it’s a never ending cycle downward.

Pay off my debts, pay me a wage to do nothing but vote, give me the necessities (food, water, shelter, oh and a cell phone)
heavyone2 · 61-69, M
@Extant1 You forgot free internet / wifi .....
heavyone2 · 61-69, M
They need free Teslas too.... and more places to plug em in and let's subsidize that with everyone's power bill each month. Wait... the woke-ers won't / don't have a power bill.... imagine that.... damn....
Extant1 · M
@heavyone2 free healthcare, free free free stuff and all they have to do is vote
Graylight · 51-55, F
@Extant1 It doesn't work like that, it doesn't have to work like that and torpedoing something before it's even fully discussed will never work.
@Extant1 Very well said!
Extant1 · M
Which is kinda why it works exactly like that!!@Graylight
Extant1 · M
@Extant1 it’s true!! You are absolutely welcome. Any nation that votes for what can be gained personally is set for failure..,,
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@Extant1 What’s best for society at large is for us to have an educated workforce that doesn’t start life in crippling debt. What is happening now is shite, and is a recent development - post Great Recession.
Extant1 · M
@QuixoticSoul agreed, if I had my way, college wouldn’t merely be an extension of high school and paid only by public funds. However, forgiveness of an agreed to debt is not the best way to achieve that end. Humans are and should be responsible for their own undertakings
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@Extant1 Might not be the best, but it can be a recognition that we done fucked up, and an attempt to fix it - followed by raising public education funding to normal levels. I'm not even that old, but college was affordable when I was in school, and none of us were saddled with crippling loans for simple undergrad.
Extant1 · M
Ok I can agree with that!! Except for the double whammy tax burden

I paid my loans, my kids loans, and now with my taxes the current outstanding loans, plus future loans….

Ok so it’s a fuck up, so are they all in turn gonna support my retirement fund??@QuixoticSoul
QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M
@Extant1 Probably should, yeah.