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Re:Cancel student-loan debt? That’s making the working class... by fr11 on Sunday November 22, 2020 @02:09AM (#25175609)
I think there's more potential to convince the right wing and the center of UBI than student loan forgiveness. Certainly I think we're making a better society if we are able to do so. The problem with the UBI is that a livable UBI is too expensive for us to afford right now - even at 11k, it's much bigger than the entire US federal discretionary budget. A much smaller UBI that grows with time, though, maybe.
Re:Cancel student-loan debt? That’s making the working class... by thomastjeffery on Monday November 23, 2020 @09:42PM (#25194711)
> I think there's more potential to convince the right wing and the center of UBI than student loan forgiveness.

> The problem with the UBI is that a livable UBI is too expensive for us to afford right now

Those two statements contradict each other.