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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I dont think "right time" is a good argument. Nothing would ever progress. "I lost fingers in the factory, it would not be fair to put safety conditions in now"
However you are right, loan forgiveness doesn't solve the problem. In fact it would create more loopholes for the rich.
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I’m not making a “it isn’t the right time” argument.
I’m arguing that any forgiveness, as it is currently proposed, would only benefit those who happen to currently have student loans and who graduated at a time that allowed them to benefit from the forgiveness program.
If student loan forgiveness were to happen, what do you say to the person who just finished paying off their loans? Sucks to be you? Or to the person who wanted to go to Really Expensive U but thought better of it and went instead to Cheaper College, potentially suffering lower job opportunities as a result? That they made the wrong decision and should have relied more on the government to bail them out?
Discharging student loans for a small segment of the population is really just a ploy to get votes. Why not give refunds to everyone still living who ever had and paid off their student loans, whenever they were incurred? It would only cost a couple trillion, right?