• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I spent five figures paying mine off two years ago.

    Still 100% support my tax dollars paying for people’s college. In fact, I’d love that instead of the nine wars my tax dollars are paying for instead.

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      10 months ago

      The problem is colleges just will keep charging more because they know people will just keep getting them knowing the gov will cover it eventually. The fix isn’t to have the gov. Cover some loans, it should be to stop letting colleges be run like a private sector.

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        Jokes on you, they already keep charging more.

        I bet if the government is footing the bill they will demand lower tuition. And unlike lowly poor people, the government is someone they will have to listen to.

        You aren’t wrong with your point. But both should be true.

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        colleges are charging more, and as a result, fewer students are attending.

        College will once again be only for the wealthy.

        But plenty of people have discovered college is not necessary to thrive in life anyway.

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      10 months ago

      Agreed. Tanks don’t teach, don’t heal, don’t feed and don’t pay pensions.

      Fucking Putin

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      10 months ago

      Same, but I want to be reimbursed. I don’t know how people who want their debt forgiven now don’t support me being reimbursed for mine. They seriously set my life back.

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        Believe me, I get it. I would definitely love to have that $16,000 back.

        I’d like for it to be that way too, but I think it’s unlikely. On a macro level though, it’s just more important to eliminate debt for the indebted, I think.

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          Only SIXTEEN THOUSAND?? When you said five figures, you had us thinking $99,999.

          I’m on year three of six, paying back $63,000 by way of the IRS garnishing 100% of my disability benefits and tax refunds 🥺

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            Yep, only 16k. It hurt to drop that much all at once, but with the way the loans are structured and so little goes to pay down the principal, I think it was worth it in the end.

            I’m sorry to hear about your situation. Capitalism fucking sucks.

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                I was very lucky.

                In March 2020 lots of oil stocks were dropping down to pennies. I bought a bunch on the cheap and it appreciated to a good price when the world reopened. Sold it all to pay off the debt. Sadly still working on my credit cards.