Why do one person’s past decisions (to not go to university / to take on and pay off debt) mean that people in the future should not benefit from a better system?
Education is great! Whether it is through college, or vocational training, or on the job learning. If removing student debt can allow people to earn one type of education with less stress, how is that not a benefit?
mean that people in the future should not benefit from a better system?
I think there would be a lot less controversy if it were about people in the future. If the plan was to make university more affordable, that would be different. Or, if the government introduced a student loan system where the interest rate was pegged to the inflation rate, I don’t think that would be so controversial.
What’s controversial is the student loan forgiveness programs. Rather than fixing the broken system so that university costs were more manageable, it’s structured as a targeted bailout of a certain group of people (people with a university education who haven’t yet fully repaid their loans) paid for by everyone else.
This is the same argument, just stretched out.
Why do one person’s past decisions (to not go to university / to take on and pay off debt) mean that people in the future should not benefit from a better system?
Education is great! Whether it is through college, or vocational training, or on the job learning. If removing student debt can allow people to earn one type of education with less stress, how is that not a benefit?
I think there would be a lot less controversy if it were about people in the future. If the plan was to make university more affordable, that would be different. Or, if the government introduced a student loan system where the interest rate was pegged to the inflation rate, I don’t think that would be so controversial.
What’s controversial is the student loan forgiveness programs. Rather than fixing the broken system so that university costs were more manageable, it’s structured as a targeted bailout of a certain group of people (people with a university education who haven’t yet fully repaid their loans) paid for by everyone else.