He always said he’s an Ump and calls them like he sees them.
Unfortunately he sees them from the lens of a Federalist Society corporate shill.
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“they believe in the legality of their relief program.” So why are they asking this antebellum rump SCROTUS for permission? Just go ahead and do it fer chrissakes!
“Roberts, joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch, repeatedly asked the U.S. Solicitor General about the fairness of the plan, with Roberts conjuring up a hypothetical person who forewent college to start a lawn care business to torque up the sympathy.”
And we’re supposed to feel sympathy for the owner of The Four Seasons?!
(“Conveniently located between the Adult Book Store and the Crematorium!”)
ETA: And it’s pretty g-ddamned elitist of Roberts to crap all over a lawn-care business owner as some sort of loser. What’s he got against the hard-working, tax-paying, job-creating, small-business backbone of America?
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Because those loans are not guaranteed by the government. Federally insured student loans are a guarantee that the government eats the loss if the student defaults, not the lending institution.
At least that’s how they worked when I went to college on student loans… ions ago!
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I give you rough as it’s not comparable. ACA was legislated by Congress & student loans were cancelled by executive branch. So, SCOTUS is overruling executive branch & ignoring they are a co-equal branch with no constitutional basis to overrule. SCOTUS is overstepping.
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Now watch the “Supreme” Court rule that “starting” a business must be classified as attending college.
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Indeed. It was banks trolling the loans not the government. And I can’t vouch for the veracity of the claim, but I’d heard all those “best friends a student could ever have” set up at the card tables on the quad were paid strictly on commission.
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Looking forward to baseball season, are we? Coincidentally, a season schedule for the Albuquerque Isotopes just arrived this afternoon. Along with an inch or so of snow, still in progress…
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Also of note, if a student defaults on a student loan the government can come back later in your life and garnish your social security benefits.
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Nah. It halves for non Pell Grant recipients. 20k if Pell Grant, 10k if not.
But money is money.
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So if Money is speech, didn’t Biden just give people more speech?
So is SC going to overrule Free Speech or Citizens United?
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Look at the unfair practices of the banks making student loans. They were shut down in my state, NE. All loans were funneled to one lender. Cancel the student debt. The bankers knew they were giving credit to people who likely couldn’t pay it back. They did it anyway because the loans were backed up by the government, convenient Republican program to foster the bank fraud.
I paid my student debt, but that was in 70’s when it was a fair competitive banking environment and colleges were reasonable and more affordable.
Regulate the industry.
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You can usually use a credit card to make student loan payments, but doing so to turn the non-dischargeable student loan debt into dischargeable credit card debt is probably some form of fraudulent transfer or bankruptcy fraud.
Note: I am not a BK lawyer.
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Burger King?
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BanKruptcy.
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You know me, sometimes I’ll be quirky… wait? Albuquerque?.. The isotopes are moving to Albuquerque!
With one exception, the women on the current SCOTUS are by far the best members.
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Part of the problem with the costs is, of course, gop legislation and actions that cut how much funding education including college receives from the State.
So students and their families got to pick up the slack.
I guess these kinds of people have always been around, but man, has there always been so many so ugly and petty and mean spirited and short sighted?
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Same GOP legislators who are saying “I paid off my student loan w/o government help” are burying the fact their student loans were like $10k because government helped on the front end instead
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The statute in question says that the Secretary “may waive or modify any statutory or regulatory provision applicable to the student financial assistance programs” as the Secretary “deems necessary in connection with a war or other military operation or national emergency.”
I had no idea the statutory basis for the forgiveness program was so solid.
It will be interesting to see how the Republicans on the SCt will twist this language to stop Biden, while at the same time leaving room for Republicans to do the same on issues they care about.
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