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Mr Lasastryke posted...

i don't see it as "fuck you, got mine." i just want US students to pay a reasonable price for colleges. "fuck you, got mine" would be if i had said that nothing should be done about student debt.

Well, yeah, it's important that some means by which tuition rates can be brought under control is found as well so that this problem doesn't re-emerge again immediately afterwards.

I think that's a thornier issue - from a "how do you solve this with government policy? Can you even?" perspective - but student debt itself is still an issue either way.

red sox would argue, and not wholly without merit in this instance I admit, that absent some means to deal with tuition rates, any action taken to deal with student debts would just be priced in by colleges as a kind of government grant available to all/many people. Using Warren's plan as a hypothetical here since it gives us an exact number to work with - I doubt colleges would be so brazen to just up their rates by $50k to absorb the policy as "free money" for themselves but if tuition rates continue to inflate they may well get there on their own in time.

tl;dr: Student debt is only half the problem, with the other being tuition costs. They're obviously heavily interconnected, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't act on one if we can. Just know that the work isn't done if you accomplish that part of it.
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