re: We’re going to know the future of this country when the SCOTUS rules on student loan debt

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Only 37% of Americans have a 4-yr college degree and only 13% have graduate degrees.

A full 56% of student loan debt is held by people who went to grad school.

The highest-income households owe 60% of outstanding student debt and make 75% of all student loan payments

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Word on the street is that they're all bums.

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remember the same thing being said on this board about the Arizona election rulings. So every month or so we have one of these “if this happens the country is over” threads. Truth is the country has been over in that sense for more like 100 years, and these things just make you sound hyperbolic and annoying.

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First, your post reads like something a middle schooler, maybe a high schooler would puke out.

Do you have student loans yourself or maybe your children? Either way if you think it’s a good policy to place the burden on the American taxpayers to pay down over a trillion in student loan debt how bout your sorry arse ponying up the first $50k and the rest of the well to do Wokesters can join your efforts to pay off student loan debt?
We got a deal?

You see, my philosophy is support the things you believe in with your damn money. If you think it’s a worthwhile cause to payoff student loan debt of total strangers just fricking do it and leave responsible Americans who handle their own business without government support out of it?

We responsible Americans are simply sick and tired of paying for shite that doesn’t make any good sense or doesn’t help the vast majority of hard working Americans……I don’t care about your loans, I paid mine and anyone who took out a student loan can pay theirs…..I even paid off my daughters…..see how that works……and we’re not wealthy people and we’re not expecting others to pay our bills.

$ 396+ billion in PPP loans forgiven so far.

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If the SCOTUS decides it’s ethical and legal to take money from responsible Americans, to take money from Americans who never attended a university and give that money to millions of Americans

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I’m probably more fiscally conservative than you, but please tell me why its acceptable to take money from “responsible Americans” and bailout failing corporations. Or send it overseas to foreign countries.

I’ve been paying my loans since the pause and wiped out almost 20k in interest that built up while I was in school. $800 a month. If they take 10k out, I’d be on the phone tomorrow spending 10k to redo my patio in the back

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imagine trying to equate SS to student debt forgiveness. people pay into SS their whole life.

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SS will be gone by the time the people seeking forgiveness are eligible to withdraw, yet they still have to pay to keep the Boomers off the streets.

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Why shocking? A decision on the extent of presidential authority?

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$ 396+ billion in PPP loans forgiven so far.

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tHaT's DiFfeReNt

This gives dictatorial powers to our president. It is an unconstitutional power grab. FJB!

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What do you think food stamps and Medicaid are? The country is fricked but this ruling is far from what broke the camel’s back.

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I know this sounds like a weird liberal idea coming from a typical conservative guy, but what about taking into consideration for food stamp eligibility deductions to income for student loan payments. That would allow student loan borrowers to qualify for food stamps so they can make their payments as agreed if the payments lower their income to below food stamp limits. I would also support job retraining initiatives at local community college to negate future student loan payments for taking higher paying jobs in critical needs like health care, infrastructure, etc.