The Supreme Court is expected to issue its ruling on the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan this month. Anticipation for the ruling is high.

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I wish I could have gotten ppp money to pay off my student loans.

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If nothing else, student loans should no longer be exempt from bankruptcy. Makes no sense that any basically any debt can be forgiven except that one specific type for some reason.

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Or, the democrats could have rallied behind Bernie because a majority of dem voters resonated with his messaging instead Hillary’s. I maintain, that Trump was as much Dems fault as it was everyone else’s.

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He didn’t win the nomination. Then a bunch of Bernie supporters made the same mistake that so many did in 2000 and did a protest vote or didn’t vote at all and we got Trump. It’s almost comical how easily the right pulls this shit and gets their candidate to win.

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More Hillary voters voted for McCain than Bernie voters that voted for Trump.

Stop pretending that your shitty candidate is owed votes. This is juts like when Dems say that Green party voters should’ve voted for them. If you want that, then actually try to earn said votes.

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wait wait wait. Lets not forget dems use super delegates so winning is a lot like an electoral college victory. The party is asking for disloyalty under that undemocratic system. I will grant though it is supposed to be to keep someone like trump from running on the party ticket.

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I support student loan forgiveness; however, not addressing the root problem only kicks the can down the road. What is the government doing to prevent this same situation from happening again in 5-10 years?

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Nothing. Then again the government isn’t doing the forgiveness either. Until Congress is no longer dead set on trying to increase everyone’s suffering, nothing will be done.

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I lived a very meager lifestyle until I paid my student loans. If student loans are forgiven, I want my $50k back. Thanks in advance.

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So did I and judging from your amount you likely went to school around when I did. Im completely fine with the foregiveness because I know I could never have come back from the load of debt required now. Im pretty sure I would not have gone to college if I was not an Xer.

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I don’t understand these bitter people who don’t want anyone else to have anything better in their lives. Well done paying off your debt, perhaps you did it in times when it was easier to pay off the loan, so is it fair that people have to pay off the loan in worse times still? The fairness argument is completely flawed.

I have a huge mortgage. If everyone else had their mortgages forgiven, I wouldn’t piss and moan on the internet, I’d be happy for my fellow humans that their lives got better.

If you want more ‘fairness’ in the world, maybe start working in a homeless shelter, or volunteer in mental health services.

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I paid mine off too, but I don’t wish that for others. Hell forgive them all imo.

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“I had to suffer, so now you do too” - the dedovshchina mindset.

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“I do not want to accept responsibility for my own actions/decisions”- the child mindset

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Oh fuck that. We can decide to forgive student loans, we do bailouts all the time. It’s our government and our money. You would rather it go to banks then vote Republican.

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If you want to be angry, then be angry at the PPP loans that were just forgiven. They sum to a much higher amount than and student loan forgiveness plan.

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I hear this a lot but I think this is a bad faith argument.

People took out student loans with the knowledge that they’d have to pay them back.

Businesses took out PPP loans with the knowledge that they’d be forgiven if certain conditions were met.

I do think people should be angry that PPP loans were issued and forgiven under conditions that practically begged for fraud. The complete lack of accountability and oversight of so much money is mind boggling and infuriating.

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I can understand that sentiment, sucks to have paid it off and then watch other people get it wiped out. However, wouldn’t you it be great for others to not have to go through what you went through, regardless of your sunk cost? Can’t we all just empathize and accept that sometimes life sucks but we can correct it mistakes for others moving forward?

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wouldn’t you it be great for others to not have to go through what you went through, regardless of your sunk cost?

That sounds more like fixing the root cause: the high prices. Not a one time payout to whoever is lucky enough to owe a lot of money at the time of forgiveness.

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