Re:Supreme Court Rejects Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:12PM
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Only because the plan was opposed on equally political grounds. The idea was a welcomed one by the people who voted for the politicians in favor of it, and not welcomed by the ones they didn't vote for, so the points went where they belonged.
If it was so certain that they had no intention of going through with it, why not call their bluff and turn the responsibility for killing it back on them?
Re:Supreme Court Rejects Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
by tivert on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:41PM
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> If it was so certain that they had no intention of going through with it, why not call their bluff and turn the responsibility for killing it back on them?
That's the wrong question. It was never if they had "intention of going through with it," it was about if they would be able to pull it off. The GGP stated "This was doomed to fail from the beginning and I bet they knew it," and I have to agree. Their plan to push this through purely via executive action was doomed to fail.
Re:Supreme Court Rejects Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
by oddtuple on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:21PM
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It failed due to the GOP, which didn’t exactly vote favorably on any measures related to this when they did have a chance.
Re:Supreme Court Rejects Student Loan Forgiveness Plan
by deelowe on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:09PM
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Do you REALLY think an executive order had any chance of succeeding? Think about it for a minute. You think the SC would be ok with the president having the ability to forgive loans on a whim?
Also points scored in the last election. IIRC, this plan was announced a single month before the 2022 election. They got to benefit from the votes of people who thought they were getting their loans forgiven, without ever actually doing that.