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A comment on Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and Eliminate Tuition. Parent comment

Re:Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and E... by gristig on Monday April 22, 2019 @04:45PM (#19722804)
They deserve to be paid whatever people are willing to pay. Just as if people rack up debt in order to go on a "useless", those people should be responsible for repaying their debt.
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Re:Warren’s Higher Education Plan: Cancel Student Debt and E... by AnimalMuppet on Monday April 22, 2019 @06:50PM (#19723838)
> They deserve to be paid whatever people are willing to pay.

Not if the government is doing the paying, they don't. How much am I willing to have the government pay for me? Quite a bit more than I'm willing to pay on my own account.

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