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Re:Soaring Student Debt Prompts Calls for Relief by 2bitencryption on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:08PM (#12493293)
Punishment is a consequence for your actions.

You would be paying regardless of your own decisions. You are not being punished, you are being forced to contribute. If that's the way your fellow citizens vote, that is how it will be (though I doubt it will happen soon).

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Re:Soaring Student Debt Prompts Calls for Relief by morgante on Tuesday September 13, 2016 @08:10PM (#12493310)
> Punishment is a consequence for your actions.

Right. That's why I said I was being punished for choosing to avoid loans. It's what makes loan forgiveness such a moral hazard: we discourage people for making the financially prudent decision to avoid crippling debt.

If I had instead borrowed money to finance my education, I could have gotten it forgiven and avoided this punishment.

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