• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    21 hours ago

    “Millionaires want free money” BOoOoOOO! No way!

    “College alumni want free money” Yay! This is totally cool and fair!

    You want me cool with wiping off $80k, give everyone else who didn’t go $80k.

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      2 minutes ago

      I don’t know what proposals you’re looking at but you might look again. That wouldn’t happen.

      Of course since we’re trying it piecemeal instead of systematically, there are many versions of this. But I see prerequisites like already being on income based repayment, ten years perfect record of repaying, up to $10k. There is no wealthy person fitting criteria like this nor would it write off any significant portion of private school tuition.

      All I know is that my ex is still paying off her student loans as a teacher, decades after graduating. If we were still married, we shouldn’t/wouldn’t qualify, but as a teacher with limited income she should

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        14 hours ago

        You sound like you want to be the special one who gets something to make your own screw up go away. “I didn’t know what an apr rate was when I took on $80k in a loan to get my studio arts degree”

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          16 minutes ago

          Having educated and debt free youth is the only way the US is going to remain relevant in the world economy.

          “Crabs in a bucket” arguments like yours really just illustrate how the US has got to the point we are at right now.

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            4 minutes ago

            Your argument is akin to trickle down economics.

            Further, I’m not against making future college free for anyone who wants it. I’m just against bailing out everyone who willingly and knowingly took on large amounts of debt as their own choice, even when there were other viable options not to.