What’s the hold up?!

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TaticalSweater on March 19th, 2020 at 14:23 UTC »

I got 33K to pay back but let me tell ya what America won’t do. As much as I want it they’d rather bail out these airlines like they did the banks in 08.

mattreyu on March 19th, 2020 at 14:49 UTC »

I've heard so many people complain that we shouldn't do it because they already paid their loans and it's not fair

Red_WarHead on March 19th, 2020 at 14:57 UTC »

I finished paying of $35,000 (plus interest) in student loans last March. Took me 2699 days.

Anyway, despite paying mine off in full and a year and a half ahead of schedule, I support the full erasure of outstanding student loan debt because:

a) I don't want anyone else to have to go through what I did in order to pay that shit off.

b) low cost education produces net benefits to society.

If we are concerned about unqualified people going, just raise entry requirements.

EDIT: Yes, I am aware that the education problem extends far beyond college entry requirements and student loans. But let's not allow 'perfect' to be the enemy of 'better'. I'm an educator at a very poor school in a very poor school district, and I know better than most what happens when kids are left to blow in the wind from K-12. There is a ton that needs to be done at this level and I wholeheartedly support every bit of it.