Cancelling $4T in taxes for 815 billionaires but not $1.7T in student debt for 40M Americans is the modern version of let them eat cake.
@QasimRashid It's absolutely not, though.
That's not how the government works, that's not how government finance works.
To say that those students don't need to pay for their share of the government budget isn't about letting them eat cake or whatever you think that means. It's about defunding government programs that our democratic process decided needed to be funded in that way.
No, you have that completely backwards.
@volkris @QasimRashid Dude, I borrowed 84 thousand. If I live long enough to pay it off, it's over 950 thousand!! So kiss my butt Einstein.
@Ponygirl Don't look at me. The federal government decided to tap you to fund federal programs.
Yeah I think that's pretty shitty of them, but it's what we're left with. And you know a lot of the people that were involved in that, we keep reelecting them.
So that's where we are. The federal government is relying on you paying that back because you're a source of revenue to pay for the federal government.
If they let you off the hook then Federal funding goes away.
Again, I thought that was a bad idea at the time. I spoke out about it being a bad idea. But we elected these people, they did it to us, and we reelected them later, so I guess we're cool with it.
