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[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Loan forgiveness without making education affordable going forward doesn't solve the problem. It's pulling up the ladder.

You're 100% correct. But be careful, these folks don't take kindly to shining a light on their hypocrisy. They signed their names to a legally-binding contract, spent the money, but now don't like paying it back under the terms they agreed to.

College tuition is far too high. But without fixing the root cause, tuition loan forgiveness does nothing for everyone before and after, and it actually makes the whole problem worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

No one (BESIDES THE GOP) is against fixing it through legislation. That is a strawman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Could you walk me through what you see as these folks' hypocrisy? I don't get it.

Is somebody arguing that loan forgiveness should be a one time thing and no one after them should get it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Blaming the people taking the loans is kind of absurd, for many it's their only option if they want to continue their education. It's not like they're taking out loans they don't need and burning the money.

"Legally-binding contract" is meaningless too, would you make the same argument against people who signed away their lives before slavery was abolished? Just because it's legal now doesn't mean it always will be, or that it must be enforced indefinitely.

You're absolutely right that reducing tuition is the right move. Tuition is free where I am and some of the costs I see elsewhere are crazy. However, the options are not necessarily mutually exclusive; you can reduce tuition and help people that have already been shafted by the existing system.