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what was stolen from you? I don't understand what you mean.
I believe he's referring to the push to make public college education free
Nothing is free. If the politicians attempt to buy votes with promises of paying off voluntary loans, it's coming out of our paychecks. I'm hoping it's just political pandering which you see a lot of these days. But it's a lot of noise. And I say this as someone who is still paying off his own student loans.
@YaleDawg I'm referring to the politicians promising to remove already accumulated student loan debt.
Link? @RxDawg not doubting you just would like to read about it
Well I duno, I just see different speaches and all their talking points. This is definitely brought up. Even talked with one of my temporary Rx students about it the other day. He joked that his vote could "be for sale". A quick google search came up with this if you really need specifics.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3pxq8/these-candidates-want-to-eliminate-your-student-loan-debt
Feel free to flag this one, too.
@Bankwalker
@RxDawg oh yeah it's definitely brought up. I just haven't kept up with the actual policy ideas to implement student loan forgiveness. Always seems more like a lip service type of thing to attract young voters. Thanks for the article
First of all, this is STILL a free country, and he can co whatever he chooses with his money and it was a very generous act. HOWEVER, generous acts by billionaires will NOT solve this problem. There are 540 billionaires in this country. If everyone of them donated the $40M like he did, it would yield $22B. The total student loan problem is $1.5T (as in trillion)!!
IMHO, the problem with college costs are these palatial campuses that every school seem to be building, the legions of bureaucrats to run it, the easy access to student loans, and the brainwashing of kids that EVERYONE should go to a traditional 4 year college, that are spiraling up costs.
Cheap trade school or community college anyone?? After all, you don’t have to be a UGA alum to be a Dawg fan!!
@Bankwalker I'm not surprised you got more men from Morehouse and Clark to apply since Spelman is an all female college.
If we can give the military a blank check every year, if we can allow major corporations to not pay taxes, if we can hand out subsidies to the oil industry, we sure as hell can lower the cost of college and make it more affordable for everyone.
I do not believe I said I had male applicants from Spelman. I received female applicants, too. I also advertised admin asst positions (answer the phone, scheduling, etc) that drew similar applicants - both male and female.
@bobby the concept of taxing major corporations even further is a complete fallacy. Coca-Cola, Delta, you name it - they all know roughly what their revenues will be for the year ahead on Jan 1. They forecast their taxes and fold them in to the cost of goods and services. YOU the consumer, are who pay those taxes, not the corporation. The costs are hidden in what you buy.
Corporate taxation is the single most regressive form of taxation in our entire economic syatem, disproportionately hitting the pockets of lower income people. You need an education to understand that one, which is one reason why the goal of the progressive socialists is to keep people dumb.
Not only that, many of the people complaining about corporations not paying taxes don't realize these profitable companies contribute to their positive returns in their 401K's and mutual funds that their retirement funds are invested into