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- Praise for Elizabeth Warren’s student debt plan Thomas Knapp, TGC
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“Praise for Elizabeth Warren’s student debt plan”: Everyone seems worried about students and schools; what will happen to all those who will suddenly be forced to write off all the “forgiven” debt?
That’s a good question, Jack. The taxpayers would probably be on the hook for that one, but the taxpayers probably funded the creditor “companies” anyway. This is just speculation, of course, (all those “probablies”!) and there’s always the issue of inequality: the people with the most student debt also make the most money. Forgiving student debt would exacerbate a problem the Left has been trying to eliminate for centuries.