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CMV: Cancelling student debt seems like a terrible idea

Obviously, student debt is a huge issue for many Americans who are stuck managing it for years if not decades but I feel like the core of the issue can solved in so many other ways other than cancelling the debt as a whole and that taking this route would not only be unnecessary but also unfair.


Why are we so hyper focused on student debt cancellation when the core of the issue comes from uncontrolled tuition and rent increases. If anything, cancelling student debt just signals that these institutions can do whatever they want on that front with no fear. On top of that coming from a poor family growing up in an upper middle class region. The majority of people I saw taking up student debt absolutely took on more than they needed to. I graduated from a class of around 1,000 people. Of those 1,000 people around 80% of them went for higher education, yet only 50 of them went to state university. I knew people that were in hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt for shit like an English major. My family worked hard to get to where we are, my parents never had any luxuries, the amount of times we ate out can be counted on one hand. Despite that I still commuted and worked every year from HS to college. My parents don’t have much but they’re proud that they were able to provide that for us. The idea that someone else can just be handed that when 1, they could’ve avoided more than half of the debt they took on and 2, didn’t nearly sacrifice as much is bullshit.
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I imagine that most people who want student debt cancellation also want the increased price of education to go away, either via free college or something else.

Also, "I suffered so other people should suffer too' is the worst reason to write laws.