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Re:We Must Cancel Everyone’s Student Debt, for the Economy’s... by always_good on Saturday February 10, 2018 @10:46AM (#16347761)
It doesn't seem to make much sense letting sour grapes direct policy.

For example, I eat healthy and exercise every day. I could complain that virtually nobody else does yet I'm effectively stuck in the same insurance pool as them. And I could use this to forever resent a single-payer system as well. But that's just silly.

Or something like "Ugh, I didn't eat pizzas every night because I had no health insurance. It's unfair if everyone gets healthcare for free! Think of all those pizzas I missed out on!"

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Re:We Must Cancel Everyone’s Student Debt, for the Economy’s... by troydavis on Saturday February 10, 2018 @10:52AM (#16347792)
> Or something like "Ugh, I didn't eat pizzas every night because I had no health insurance. It's unfair if everyone gets healthcare for free! Think of all those pizzas I missed out on!"

Since this proposal is debt-specific and retroactive, the analogy would be something like: "It's unfair if everyone gets all debt for prior health expenses repaid. Not their actual health expenses (however they were paid for), nor a reasonable health expense, but instead, whatever part of their health expenses are currently outstanding as debt."

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