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Re:Cancel student-loan debt? That’s making the working class... by 535188B17C93743 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @12:21PM (#25171008)
>I think the most reasonable thing to do would be to cancel student debts and to then make college affordable again.

We need to do this the other way around. But yeah, college (and trade schools) are an investment in the people of our country. I sure as hell would rather pay higher taxes and live with well-educated citizens who can create things and start their own businesses than be absurdly rich.

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Re:Cancel student-loan debt? That’s making the working class... by thomastjeffery on Saturday November 21, 2020 @12:25PM (#25171047)
> We need to do this the other way around.

Why does it matter what order these are done?

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Re:Cancel student-loan debt? That’s making the working class... by 535188B17C93743 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @12:27PM (#25171067)
Paying it off now doesn't fix the problem––it's a bandaid.
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Re:Cancel student-loan debt? That’s making the working class... by thomastjeffery on Saturday November 21, 2020 @01:09PM (#25171429)
Doing one doesn't accomplish the other.

So again I ask, why does the order matter?

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Re:Cancel student-loan debt? That’s making the working class... by fr11 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @02:19AM (#25175658)
Not the original poster, but for me, because our political system is broken and we can never seem to do the hard part, so we shouldn't do the part that makes the system worse unless we can do the hard part that makes it better first.
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