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Re:Supreme Court Rejects Student Loan Forgiveness Plan by oddtuple on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:10PM (#36544483)
Did you read the paper? It’s very much not an argument for Peter robbing Paul. Unless you’re saying investing in people’s education is robbery?
Re:Supreme Court Rejects Student Loan Forgiveness Plan by s1artibartfast on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:15PM (#36545158)
I read maybe a quarter of the paper and I guess I'm saying both.

It's robbing Peter to pay Paul. Someone with student debt gets relief and greater spending capacity and everyone else just get some more national debt and higher interest rates.

It is all upside for one party and all downside for the other. As the paper states, GDP goes up, but less than the total cost over a 10 year horizon.

Forgiving 1.4 Trillion debt is predicted "Over the 10-year forecast, the policy generates between $861 billion and $1,083 billion in real GDP.

Now GDP doesn't equal federal revenue so you are really looking at adding $1.4T debt for a fraction of $1T in returns.

Re:Supreme Court Rejects Student Loan Forgiveness Plan by oddtuple on Saturday July 01, 2023 @07:02AM (#36548815)
To address these other concerns, checkout out podcasts like pitchfork economics or freakanonics. There’s no reason to think interest would go up. That’s just concern trolling from republicans
Re:Supreme Court Rejects Student Loan Forgiveness Plan by s1artibartfast on Saturday July 01, 2023 @08:20AM (#36549313)
It says so in the paper you have been linking everywhere