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Trump to ban student loans for low income college degrees

Posted on 9/28/26 at 11:55 am
Posted by Yaboylsu63
Member since Mar 2014
3788 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 11:55 am
I voted for this.
Interesting and potentially effective way to stop funding leftist havens on campuses.

Posted by MSMHater
Houston
Member since Oct 2008
23469 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 11:56 am to
Can we just make all the degrees more affordable, please?
Posted by JimEverett
Member since May 2020
2752 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 11:59 am to
No way it would get through this Congress, much less so a Democrat Congress coming in January.
Posted by LSUgrad88
Member since Jun 2009
9681 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:00 pm to
Please, no common sense solutions.
Posted by Azkiger
Member since Nov 2016
29002 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:00 pm to
A bank won't give me 100k to buy a Honda civic, why are the Feds giving 100k for historical lesbian dance theory or whatever the frick colleges have available now?

You can pay for that shite yourself.
Posted by Yaboylsu63
Member since Mar 2014
3788 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:01 pm to
I suspect this would help in affordable degrees across the board. If you gut the bloat and massive amount of money injected into college systems through bullshite liberal degrees, the rest of the degrees will get cheaper.
Posted by 0
Member since Aug 2011
18436 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:02 pm to
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Can we just make all the degrees more affordable, please?




Our government is not actually trying to help anyone, they just want to make sure they get their money back
Posted by TDTOM
Member since Jan 2021
26178 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:03 pm to
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Can we just make all the degrees more affordable, please?


Eliminate federal student loans.
Posted by RohanGonzales
Pronoun: Whatever
Member since Apr 2024
13278 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:04 pm to
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Our government is not actually trying to help anyone, they just want to make sure they get their money back


still an improvement
Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
176006 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:04 pm to
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I suspect this would help in affordable degrees across the board. If you gut the bloat and massive amount of money injected into college systems through bullshite liberal degrees, the rest of the degrees will get cheaper.

Or the opposite will happen. If universities lose enrollment because these degrees aren't backed by government guaranteed loans then they might need to raise tuition across the board.
Posted by texas tortilla
houston
Member since Dec 2015
5057 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:04 pm to
how bout the government get out of the student loan business period. that was obama BS to begin with.
Posted by MSMHater
Houston
Member since Oct 2008
23469 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:06 pm to
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Eliminate federal student loans.


100% agree with this. That's the only thing that will drive down tuition significantly.
Posted by tadman
Member since Jun 2020
5672 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:09 pm to
The next step is to limit overall loan size. Colleges have this thing where they overbuild to attract students with extremely nice and expensive stuff, raise tuition to cover the cost, then the gov't guaranteed loans come in and finance the nice stuff.

If Trump came in tomorrow and said "nobody will ever borrow more than $40,000 total in their life for college", you would ahve a few weeks of people freaking out and then colleges would figure out how to make the numbers work. No more golf sims, lap pools, etc...

The college education is the single item that has most outpaced inflation in history.
Posted by BWHLSU
Member since Jul 2026
318 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:09 pm to
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how bout the government get out of the student loan business period. that was obama BS to begin with.

What about grants? Can we do away with that 60 year old socialist policy, too?
Posted by Zach
Gizmonic Institute
Member since May 2005
118235 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:11 pm to
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why are the Feds giving 100k for historical lesbian dance theory

Because studies show that 99% of Americans don't know the basics of historical lesbian dance theory. Do you want us to remain ignorant?
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
64294 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:12 pm to
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Can we just make all the degrees more affordable, please?


Getting rid of student aid, including some loans, would do exactly this. The federal government needs to get completely out of the student loan business and let private banks and credit unions lend students/parents money...like before.
Posted by geoag58
Member since Nov 2011
2525 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:13 pm to
What drove up costs was voting in the communist idiot Obama. I saw it first hand with my kids. Saw how tuition was fairly stable pre-obama created FAFSA loans and post-Obama created FAFSA loans tuition jumped and the began increasing much faster. Scumbag university administrators saw that as free money. I know A&M had a building boom that began right after. F*** obama!!
Posted by Doctor B
Member since Jul 2024
2118 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:14 pm to
I have mixed feelings on this one. I have a BA in English. I'm going to stand up for my degree program and say English is a solid pathway to career options in legal, medical, research, communication depts.

Some of the 'useless' degrees are useful. The dividing line is the people who want to work vs. the people who want to sit there and complain about everything....their student loan balances, the job market, Trump, etc.
Posted by Dixie Normus
Earth
Member since Sep 2013
2884 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:22 pm to
This, if constitutional/upheld, should help with education costs. Less students will be able to afford the meaningless degrees which should result in drastic cuts to those departments. Doesn’t entirely fix the problem, but the trickle-down effects should be better for costs.
Posted by 0
Member since Aug 2011
18436 posts
Posted on 9/28/26 at 12:24 pm to
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Some of the 'useless' degrees are useful


There are alot of useful degrees that don’t pay well either. We going to discourage people from getting zoology and forestry degrees? What about any of the education degrees? We just not going to have teachers anymore?
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