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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Sure he can. for example, student loans.
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Most student debt is held by people who are in (or will be in) the top 25 per cent of Americans in income. More than half (56 per cent) of all student debt is held by the 14 per cent of Americans who went to graduate school.
https://educationdata.org/student-lo...y-income-level
Targeting forgiveness at working-class students who have moderate loans (as most do) seems fairer than spending 10s of billions from the public purse to compensate veterinarians, lawyers, and professors for tuition that vaulted them into the top earnings brackets.
Unless the intent is to buy off upper-middle-class voters in the same way making mortgage interest tax-deductible buys them off. But that seems an odd approach for people who champion a more egalitarian society.