As someone who paid off his student loan
I am not looking forward to paying off someone else’s as a tax payer.
That being said Uncle Joe MUST keep his promise, you have to let the kids wet their beaks
Cynical yes, but that’s politics.
Some on the hard left are advocating for 50K now, not going to happen, but thanks for creating an exploitable wedge issue for the far right to concern troll about.
A good start. I would add a cap on interest. I also agree that the colleges themselves need more skin in the game.
That is the hard left’s position. Because losing is the goal; not a bug, a feature.
‘neither a borrower nor a lender be’… this is something i learned very early in life…i’ve never had a credit card, i don’t like to owe money to anyone…i do have an AMEX card with limited charges,no interest, and the card is not ;free;.used for travel emergencies.
some people , like me, are just sick and tired of these youngsters who we call the ‘trophy generation’… these are kids who got trophies simply because they were ‘there’ my kids and grands worked too hard to get their degrees…then to slap them in the face and say…sorry, sucker, i’m getting mine ‘and yours’… i noticed that the so-callled a’progressive candidate’ lost in San Francisco…IMO, this is the ‘canary in the cold mine’ for extreme liberals, they need to pull their heads in out of the clouds and embrace reality…even liberals are getting tired of paying for ‘other people’s’ ‘wants’… i may vote for local Democrats… but if this happens…i will not vote for BIDEN again… one of my grands put herself thro’ GWU without borrowing a dime… she got grants and worked…so, it can be done.
I am certain President DeSantis will make major progress on this pressing issue.
Policy by anecdote. I have a friend who was cured of cancer - so why on Earth do we continue to fund cancer research?!?
My daughter graduated Summa Cum Laude from SJU with no loans either - although parent out-of-pocket was in the $120K realm, which I was happy to do and thankful I could. My own folks couldn’t and I was paying off loans into my forties - and so the fuck what. Your grand and my daughter are not in the least representative of high school grads - and you know that.
This is a genuine and complex issue. Generations before us could work our way through - and I did - but the skyrocketing costs of tuition make that impossible for today’s generation. Sorry you find that cold hard fact so inconvenient.
If I recall, you are normally a thoughtful poster. What happened?
there has to be a better way to lessen the pressure on students…i don’ think forgiving debt is the answer…aboutism… what about the kids and parents who have paid their debt…mine are now suggesting car loans be forgiven…and rent & mortgages,be paid… i just tell them. ‘no-one promised you a rose garden’
Yes, that would be me. Yeah, it’s complex.
As I noted above:
I suspect we are both on the same page in terms of going forward, that like the other Western nations, college ought to be affordable, like it once was for us.