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Canceling student loans isn't fair to all the people who realized that getting deep into debt for their education was not a good idea and made other plans.
Right now we are punishing the poetry majors for making them subsidize the engineers.
Or parents who saved everything they could and sacrificed so their children could have the same benefits they had. Who knew that the best chance their kids had was their personal investment in their children's future.The lesson you're sending on governmental cancelling of student debt is scary.
Sure they can ... right now they do not need to because we find ways to create artificial demand by making it easy to get a student loan.How about different prices for different majors? Want to major in Computers or engineering? $50k/year. Want to major in English or history? $25k/year. Music or poetry? $10k/year.Right not having the same price for all means the poetry majors are subidzing the engineers.
I keep seeing people state things like this. As I understood it, the tax tables for witholding didn't come until late January, and wouldn't be applied until the February paycheck.So how are people seeing all this "extra money".
Tax tables were completed January 11th. By law the implementation of the tables has to be completed by Feb 15th. Americans started seeing extra money as early as Feb 1st per CNN.
"Republicans more conservative. The middle is gone. " not taking any positions here, but just my take- i wish this were true, but today's republicans may not even meet the standards of the old kennedy democrats. i call today's republicans, democrat-lite. the middle is long and strong=the independents the universities and the feds need each other-that's why you won't see any changes except the election time whiffing of debt relief. free education for everyone!! then everyone can do ha-vod
Yet we have laws is place that allow cancellation of other debt. And what happens to those who take advantage of such laws? We elect them president. It’s just interesting how the “moral hazard” argument always seems to be used with the poor and the young.
My parents scraped hard to send me to Catholic grade and high schools.Today, many states offer taxpayer-funded vouchers for this. Others, like Illinois, are using taxpayer funds to give families scholarships to attend religious schools.Should my parents be scared and/or crying about how unfair it all is? They sacrificed to send their kids to private school, and now their tax dollars are going to let other families do it for free or much less? So unfair!There are some solid arguments against canceling student debt. "Waahhh, it's unfair" is not one of them.
My tone hasn't changed in 40ish years of voting. Parties change. Not sure how old you are, but let me give some examples.In the late 70's when my voting started, almost 50% of Democrats owned guns. Today that number is less than 25%. Back then there were numerous pro life Democrats in Congress, today there are three and one will likely be primaried out this Summer. Where I used to be on board with 90% of the platform, I'm now on board with about 65%. I still will vote Democrat, but my tone hasn't changed, the parties have changed. Democrats more liberal. Republicans more conservative. The middle is gone. Maybe it is you that needs to recognize tone and how through time parties change, but us old guys may not change with our parties but still belong to them.
Yup. It's also interesting, to me, how economic statistics and arguments can be used/supported for one thing (GOP/Trump tax cuts) but ignored and poo-poo'ed in another (eliminate student loans).
Where I work, the new tax tables were used on our January 31 paychecks.
What in the Wide World of Sports does a change in the tax code altering the % of earnings the government confiscates from her citizens have to do with making contracts freely entered into resulting in trillions of dollars of obligation null and void?Answer:nothing.
Thanks, I know the tables were completed in January, but figured most companies would not use them until the end of February check. Apparently some companies did so sooner.Be careful with budgeting though. I've now seen what I will be paid for this month, and my take home will go up. I've also calculated what I will pay for the year in taxes and what i'm taking home extra now will be paid pack come tax time. I'm taking a net loss. Take home pay is higher now, but I will pay more in taxes this year than before. #taxincrease.
Ronald Reagan would be bounced from a GOP primary faster than Scott Walker these days for not being conservative enough.
First thing I did after I calculated what my new take home pay would be was to submit a W-4 with fewer exemptions to bump my taxes back up.#bluestateliving
Get out of the echo chamber you live in. It isn't reality. If anything the Democrats of today are centrists. In any other country, they'd be left leaning conservatives.
I've told you this many times. You do not understand anything about the education industry. You repeatedly state false information, make false assumptions, and not surprisingly, come up with false conclusions. I've tried to correct you in the past, but you refuse to actually listen.Here is another one for you, that I've told you before:At most universities, STEM departments are revenue generating. They make a substantial profit. Liberal arts departments operate at a loss. They could remove all liberal arts departments and actually be able to lower tuition, but that comes at a cost of the students not getting as good of an education. It is known and has been shown that the liberal arts components of a degree improve the success and abilities of all disciplines.
Why are you pretending to be a Democrat. This is written 100% like our ol' buddy Chicos. Who can't stay away from here. God forbid this guy gets a hold of a cigarette or some opiods some day. He'd be dead before sunrise.
Yet we have laws is place that allow cancellation of other debt.