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Topic | Shouldn't people who paid their student loans get something? |
Balrog0 01/27/21 1:14:31 PM #43: | Zanzenburger posted... The thing I don't understand about this is that Public Student Loan Forgiveness already exists. It's already a service available to a small percentage of the population, where all your loans are automatically forgiven after 10 years, and the forgiveness is not taxable. But I don't see any outrage about people wanting to be compensated for not being eligible for that program when it first started in 2007. The logic behind it is that nonprofit and government compensation is lower than private for profit, but socially valuable enough to subsidize. General student loan forgiveness is available to everyone, but in a much longer timeline. I do see people mad about it, but it's not been successful enough to get much notoriety. Zanzenburger posted... Also, this isn't the first time something became available to people and previous people didn't get compensated. Two of these aren't public policies, and two of them aren't an individual benefit, but social welfare policies. So I don't really see the similarities. Though if we could recompensate families for student lunches and medical debt that wouldn't be bad. Zanzenburger posted... That's just how progress works. When something new comes around, you can't retroactively compensate everyone who existed before that new thing came. Where would it end? If that were the case, nothing new could ever be introduced. Maybe not every time, but I'm sure you could sometimes. --- Trying to dunk since July 2020 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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