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Student Loan Forgiveness: Supreme Court Strikes Down Biden’s Debt Forgiveness Plan
(www.nytimes.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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"A horrible precedent of slightly more affordable education.
Born into indentured servitude? Work it off."
These are poor defenses of the current US debt system.
Cases of precedent affect legislation.
But it's not more affordable education? It's just funneling federal dollars into the education industry, which is such blatant corruption I don't get why anyone was ever for it. If you want to make education more affordable then start by.. reducing the cost of education?
maybe you should start a grassroots campaign then.
There are plenty of campaigns against for-profit debt already making progress.
Besides, the data is already all out there, and that's what I'm interested in spreading.
Costs less than a percent of the US budget to pay for free higher education, and in 2-8 years, the US would have a new productive generation of doctors, scientists, engineers and other professionals. It's a pretty obvious win.
Some of the craziest conversations I have had are with libertarians.
"We don't need a department of education, we just need to be friends with our neighbors and the neighborhood pools it's money to hire teachers who come from somewhere that we all agree are great because in this fantasy I get along with all of my neighbors perfectly and our values are aligned and then we rent a building or we build a building or we use someone's home and we just teach the kids there!"
Oh like public school? Like a public school with extra steps?
I love how folks like to pick political ideologies like their favorite sports team. Like you can only use one tool to build a house.
And the choice is often so remarkably ill-considered, if considered at all. Like buying a house based on the color of the mailbox.
A 'public' school (or any institution) they imagine themselves dominating (and lets be real, abusing that power and potentially vulnerable individuals/children).