Let me preface this by saying I'm open to being wrong and that I don't expect others to share these views. I still owe on my student loans and am not excited to continue paying them. Also, I'm listing several reasons here, so even if someone pokes holes in one or two, I'd encourage to see if there are still one or two solid reasons to be opposed to the specific method of student loan payoffs that was ruled unconstitutional.
From the beginning, the Biden administration knew this wasn't a constitutional way of paying off loans. Their hope was that no one would have standing to bring a suit. In general, I'm not in favor of doing unconstitutional things in the hope we can get away with it. That's a door I don't want the Republicans to have access to either.
This program was initially proposed as COVID relief but does nothing to help those most impacted by COVID. It DOES however, help a huge class of potential voters. From the start this hasn't been about helping people, it's been about gaining votes.
Paying off existing student loans is an expensive measure that does nothing to address what got us here in the first place. We are paying too much for degrees that don't provide the benefits and opportunities they once did, and that's not going to change if we cancel existing debt. All it does is out us right back here in 5-10 years.
There's a right way to go about this stuff. Congress should be the ones doing this, not the president. Unfortunately we have a congress that would much rather assign their work out to other people to take care of and that's part of what has gotten us in the mess we're in in the first place. I prefer a weak Office of the President, as we don't always have who we want in that office. Sometimes this means things move slower than we'd like, but I'd rather that than letting whoever is president at the time take huge sweeping actions unchecked by Congress and the Judicial Branch.
Now, just to piss off anyone who wasn't already upset with me, I think Trump is a crook and I hope he goes to jail for a long time.
Anyway, I'm not trying to start a fight, just give some reasons why I personally am happy with this SC decision.
Let me preface this by saying I'm open to being wrong and that I don't expect others to share these views. I still owe on my student loans and am not excited to continue paying them. Also, I'm listing several reasons here, so even if someone pokes holes in one or two, I'd encourage to see if there are still one or two solid reasons to be opposed to the specific method of student loan payoffs that was ruled unconstitutional.
From the beginning, the Biden administration knew this wasn't a constitutional way of paying off loans. Their hope was that no one would have standing to bring a suit. In general, I'm not in favor of doing unconstitutional things in the hope we can get away with it. That's a door I don't want the Republicans to have access to either.
This program was initially proposed as COVID relief but does nothing to help those most impacted by COVID. It DOES however, help a huge class of potential voters. From the start this hasn't been about helping people, it's been about gaining votes.
Paying off existing student loans is an expensive measure that does nothing to address what got us here in the first place. We are paying too much for degrees that don't provide the benefits and opportunities they once did, and that's not going to change if we cancel existing debt. All it does is out us right back here in 5-10 years.
There's a right way to go about this stuff. Congress should be the ones doing this, not the president. Unfortunately we have a congress that would much rather assign their work out to other people to take care of and that's part of what has gotten us in the mess we're in in the first place. I prefer a weak Office of the President, as we don't always have who we want in that office. Sometimes this means things move slower than we'd like, but I'd rather that than letting whoever is president at the time take huge sweeping actions unchecked by Congress and the Judicial Branch.
Now, just to piss off anyone who wasn't already upset with me, I think Trump is a crook and I hope he goes to jail for a long time.
Anyway, I'm not trying to start a fight, just give some reasons why I personally am happy with this SC decision.