The two proposals they explicitly call out, allowing employers to subsidize the debt, and allowing farmers to write off their debts, are the exact kind of speci

The two proposals they explicitly call out, allowing employers to subsidize the debt, and allowing farmers to write off their debts, are the exact kind of special carve-outs that caused the damn problem in the first place (the genesis being the non-dischargability & government guarantee of education debts, which was an enormous give-away to the higher ed sector). This is eerily reminiscent of the pre-revolution French or late Soviet Union trying to keep their spinning plates of state obligations, onerous taxes, and corrupt subsidies aloft.