You took on an obligation when you sought out and signed for those loans for your extended adolescence to study early 13th century masterbatory techniques in eastern Persia and now people who actually provide a useful function in the economy get to bear the burden.
Whereas I don’t necessarily agree with those bank bailouts, those banks were expected to repay the money. Are students supposed to repay the debt forgiveness at some point? If not, we are not talking about the same thing.
Because we created a society that made a college degree equivalent to a high school diploma of the 70’s and 80’s when you could get out of HS and get a well-paying job.
How much will your plumber charge the next time that waste line needs snaked to the street? Even more than inflation because he is getting soaked for social science tuition by strangers.
Half of this country can’t drive cars, they certainly wouldn’t be able to drive trucks. Even most trades require you to go to trade school out of HS because unless you are born into a family that does it, most businesses don’t want to pay you while they train you.
Median personal income in 2020 was around 56k. The cut off for the 10k being talked about is 125k. This is the most regressive plan I recall ever seeing…along with paying people to buy EVs while some will be trying to dig up money to buy used ICEs on their own.
At least Obama gave the money to people driving “junkers”.