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> Where is the empathy for the ones who passed on a college education because they didn't think they would be able to pay off the loan? I don't understand. No

> Where is the empathy for the ones who passed on a college education because they didn't think they would be able to pay off the loan? I don't understand. No matter what kind of reform is done (making college cheaper, or forgiving loans, or any other solution) it will still be the case that some people in the past couldn't go to college because it was too expensive back then. So we can never change anything?

dudul 4y ago
We can - and must - change the rules/system moving forward for sure, but I don't think it's fair when 2 individuals, who were faced with the decision to go or not to college at the same time, with the same rules, see the rules retroactively changed for one of them.
- mhb 4y ago
  And not just that. The people who decided not to go to college are paying for the "forgiven" loans of the ones who went.
readthenotes1 4y ago
We can change things the question is can we allow people who are motivated by profit to dictate the change. College is way more expensive than it was before the government started distorting the prices. The inflation rate for college education is similar to that of disease care and is unconscionable and driven by the free money hand out that Biden helped create.
lostmsu 4y ago
Why change what was, and not what will be? I'd rather they give free college to the future kids than repay the ones who already got one.
- danaris 4y ago
  No one's changing what was. That's impossible, unless our physicists have come up with something really cool recently. Canceling student debt is, in fact, changing what will be: many people now do not have to worry that, in the future, they will have to pay that extra money, or that their loans will continue to balloon in size due to the interest changes. That is all the future. And why do you think that canceling some debt now for people actively struggling under its burden is more unfair to people who paid off their debts than letting future people go to college without ever having to take on that burden?

dudul 4y ago

We can - and must - change the rules/system moving forward for sure, but I don't think it's fair when 2 individuals, who were faced with the decision to go or not to college at the same time, with the same rules, see the rules retroactively changed for one of them.

mhb 4y ago
And not just that. The people who decided not to go to college are paying for the "forgiven" loans of the ones who went.

readthenotes1 4y ago

We can change things the question is can we allow people who are motivated by profit to dictate the change. College is way more expensive than it was before the government started distorting the prices. The inflation rate for college education is similar to that of disease care and is unconscionable and driven by the free money hand out that Biden helped create.

lostmsu 4y ago

Why change what was, and not what will be? I'd rather they give free college to the future kids than repay the ones who already got one.

danaris 4y ago
No one's changing what was. That's impossible, unless our physicists have come up with something really cool recently. Canceling student debt is, in fact, changing what will be: many people now do not have to worry that, in the future, they will have to pay that extra money, or that their loans will continue to balloon in size due to the interest changes. That is all the future. And why do you think that canceling some debt now for people actively struggling under its burden is more unfair to people who paid off their debts than letting future people go to college without ever having to take on that burden?