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Jesus Christ, we’re talking forgiving student debt, not full-blown communism here.
Communism is at least theoretically for the benefit of the working class. This is even worse. Government cheese for the bourgeoise.
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Yup, we in most places of Europe live in total bondage due to free education. > When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor.
In Europe, the middle and upper middle class taxes itself to pay for “free” education. In the US, families making up to $250,000–which would be in the top tax bracket in nearly every European country—conceive of themselves as proletariat that deserve both rock-bottom taxes that haven’t been increased since Reagan, as well as free stuff from the government, at the same time.
Really?! I had no idea!
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If we want to argue about tax dollars being stolen then the massive bank bailouts and decade of QE by the fed are massively, _massively_ more of a problem and cost. Stop bailing out bad business decisions with my money and then we can talk about not spending it on stuff like paying off education loans.
Half a trillion dollars is not insignificant.
This site is blocked while you are outside of the US. That’s unfair since we still pay US taxes and still have to pay our debts.
This site is blocked while you are outside of the US. That’s unfair since we still pay US taxes and still have to pay our debts.
Just use a vpn
Most other government sites work this way. I can pay taxes, buy bonds, access Medicare information, etc. from outside the US.
So what’s the justification to make a special case this time?
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Sure, but now we are subsidizing it.
We're subsidizing relief from it. Loan debt and interest are what subsidize the bad actors.
In the USA, you can't purchase alcoholic beverages until you are 21. But you can sign up for a student loan that may be financial millstone for life.
Or you can buy high-risk meme stocks. Or crytpo. Or derivitives.
There's a million ways to fritter away money.
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With that logic, nobody can ever be helped because it’s unfair to those who aren’t being helped at the moment.
With that logic, any program to redistribute any money from any group to any other group is fine. Somebody is being helped; it's okay if not everybody is being helped in the same moment, right?