1/ No matter your views on student debt forgiveness, these folks who oppose it bc "I had to pay MY loans off, so they should too," are really awful people. Wanting others to experience the pain and stress you did (supposedly to build character) is sadistic...
2/ Imagine parallels: If you were physically or sexually abused ('my kids should experience that too so they won't have life too easy!'). If you experienced medical bankruptcy ('we shouldn't make health care more affordable or have M4A bc going broke for meds made me stronger!)..
3/ I mean it's just bizarre. Being burdened with heavy student debt -- bc colleges have become big businesses where hiking tuition is seen as a proxy for status/quality, and bc states have cut back on direct financing of higher ed -- is bad for everyone, not just the debtor...
4/ It saddles young people with a financial and emotional burden early on, which stifles their ability to get off to a stable start in their careers, or to form stable families. It siphons $ that could have gone to more productive use into debt servicing...
5/ And of course it furthers the gap between the haves and have-nots/lessers, as the former (whose families can pay for their kids' college) can put their earnings into a down payment, starting a business, etc while the latter are on hold, paying off debt...
6/ Doing debt forgiveness would allow a re-set, immediately free millions of people up to use that money for more productive purposes, and benefit the whole society, including those of us who had to "pay off our own debt."
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