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Yes they would as there’d be no cost to them while all of them on the taxpayers.
by nxm 3mo ago
Yes they would as there’d be no cost to them while all of them on the taxpayers.
- sethammons 3mo agoSpherical cows. You are applying economic theory in a vacuum. Sure, we joked at the time we could just declare bankruptcy and keep the degree. However, show me sources showing that this was a real problem. It wasn't. Simply, people were not playing the game that way in any serious way. I am pretty sure I have never met a single person who declared bankruptcy purely to avoid a student loan.
- dyauspitr 3mo agoPeople might not do it for a $15k loan (accounting for inflation back then), but they definitely will for $100k today. School was much cheaper back then.