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Student borrowers should be allowed to go bankrupt like you can with every other type of debt. Forgiving it would solve nothing because they would just keep issuing more anyway, but the whole thing has been a gigantic scam from the beginning.
I agree. I'm a strong advocate of trade schools. I never had debt to forgive.
As a person who has been fucked over with a lot of student debt, I also think that the conservatives who are against the idea of forgiving it should recognize that we live in a system in which that same amount of debt (not sure on the number actually, but it was a shit ton) was forgiven to all of Wall Street and the big banks in 2008. That sort of corporate socialism that privatizes profits and socializes losses is fundamentally corrupt and unfair and breeds resentment as it leads to a widening wealth disparity. We can manage to bail out all the big banks, airlines, mega corporations, etc. (which never should have been done) but god forbid we ever do that for the average person. The system which created the debt in the first place is immoral and corrupt and in no way does the government deserve to be repaid. Student debt is no different from government debt in the sense that it is insolvent and will never be repaid. It’s best to not pay it or pay the minimum amount possible, buy assets and let fiat currency debasement work in your favor.
