Do you have this same feeling against Medicare, even though you aren't benefitting from the program directly? Against disability pay? Against food stamps? Against Earned Income Tax Credits? Against Low Income Housing Tax Credits? Homeowner tax rebates? Business tax credits? Half of your property taxes going to schools when you don't have children.
Talked to a guy just today paying over $6k a year just for schools but is childfree. I myself am paying about $3k of my annual property tax straight to local schools yet I do not have kids yet. That's at least $250 every month I'm paying.
Tons of taxpayer money gets paid for all sorts of things we don't benefit from directly. If you're not for any of it, so be it, but if you're not, and you're so against 'policies that take away from people' presumably you mean tax money funding these programs, you should probably be equally angry about pretty much all of these.
I also avoided getting student loans for a while, dropping out of college so I wouldn't take them out, and it severely stunted my salary trajectory because of it, working in places like Wal-mart shipping rooms for $7.50 an hour in my early 20s when I could have had a degree and made 6x more than that.
I eventually did get student loans and finished my degree, and paid them all off shortly before they announced this debt relief. I'm still all for it, as I've seen countless people crippled by student debt.
>Do you have this same feeling against Medicare, even though you aren't benefitting from the program directly? Against disability pay? Against food stamps? Against Earned Income Tax Credits? Against Low Income Housing Tax Credits? Homeowner tax rebates? Business tax credits? Half of your property taxes going to schools when you don't have children.
All of those things are available to me if I get down on my luck so they make sense. And I don’t have to have children — I was a child once and benefited from public schools. If you didn’t, you had it available to you and your parents chose not to.
How is this the same thing? When might I in my life directly benefit from this loan forgiveness like all of those things you listed?
Talked to a guy just today paying over $6k a year just for schools but is childfree. I myself am paying about $3k of my annual property tax straight to local schools yet I do not have kids yet. That's at least $250 every month I'm paying.
Tons of taxpayer money gets paid for all sorts of things we don't benefit from directly. If you're not for any of it, so be it, but if you're not, and you're so against 'policies that take away from people' presumably you mean tax money funding these programs, you should probably be equally angry about pretty much all of these.
I also avoided getting student loans for a while, dropping out of college so I wouldn't take them out, and it severely stunted my salary trajectory because of it, working in places like Wal-mart shipping rooms for $7.50 an hour in my early 20s when I could have had a degree and made 6x more than that.
I eventually did get student loans and finished my degree, and paid them all off shortly before they announced this debt relief. I'm still all for it, as I've seen countless people crippled by student debt.