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human
CMV: Cancelling student loan debt is a mostly useless economic move being pushed because it benefits middle-class liberal voters

This is something that's always bothered me, mostly on account of how often it's repeated when the underlying logic seems so obviously flawed to me. While cancelling existing student loan debt might offer temporary benefits for some people, shouldn't every dollar spent on that be spent eliminating the need for student loan debt in the first place? I'd think subsidizing the construction of schools that agree to charge tuition and fees below a certain amount or another plan along those lines would actually address the underlying problem. Cancelling student debt doesn't and its primary purpose seems to be to mollify millennial voters.

But given how often I see this repeated as a desirable policy, I have to ask if there's something I'm missing here.
gpt
Doesn't it also benefit the countless people with student loan debts, regardless of political party? Just because something doesn't **exclusively** benefit one group, doesn't mean it can't benefit others. Just the pay off in itself could be life changing for thousands of people. Whatever else they do with the money is just a side effect if it accomplishes the pay off as the primary goal as far as most are concerned.