The wealthier you are, the greater the expectation that others will serve you.
Remember the lords and peasants system? We actually haven’t moved on from that just given it a new coat.
Not fancy private schools. They'll cover majority cost of their kid's private school.
They want YOUR poor kid to go to a religious school - if they win on the vouchers, eventually the vouchers won't cover the cost of most of the former public schools and private schools. But those religious schools... They'll be standing there salivating with open arms and subsidized voucher tuition. Without other options, you'll send your kid and tell yourself it won't be that bad, tell yourself you'll keep communicating with them to contextualize the education versus the religion, but life will happen. The church will have millions more kids to attempt to indoctrinate than they do in today's regularly declining religious communities.
Under his fucking eye.
Vote. Tell your people to vote and call your "both sides" uncle a piece of shit to his misinformed face.
AI garbage, get that weak shit outta here
20 gallons of water, gone
I chose a lower paying job in lieu of going to college and taking on debt. I'd support writing off the debt if the debtor has paid in the loan amounts worth as if it was zero interest, but making it all written off isn't right by anyone who chose the route I took.
Cool. All the future doctors and engineers can do the same thing, right?
How so?
Everyone with a hs diploma still gas to compete with everyone else when it comes to buying cars, food, housing, and everything else. The limiting factor of a house for instance is "how much is someone who wants it willing to pay?" College debt means that even if you make more, you may not have much more in available income, or a lower credit score than someone with just a highschool degree.
Essentially in a world of limited availability (which we all live in) everyone getting their debt paid off after taking it on is going to raise costs of things because it gives more people the extra income to spend on it. Inflation at the expense of everyone who isn't having their college debt cleared off.
I don't think this comparison really works. These people are against their money going to other people, whether it's to a public school or to pay off somebody else's student loans. Agree with them or not, those things are logically consistent.
Vouchers are my tax dollars. So they don't want their money to go to anyone else, but they're ok taking everyone else's.
Here's a fun thing about student loans: we have stupidly high tuition thanks to CA governor Reagan and president Nixon wanting to reduce the number of students protesting against the Vietnam War. Of course the excuse they used was to balance the budget. This is just one more in a long line of things that Reagan and Nixon ruined in this country for decades.
https://12ft.io/https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reagan/
Also, the real reason school vouchers were pushed was to backdoor segregation after Brown v Board of Education desegregated schools.
Here's the original since 12ft.io looks a little weird on mobile. https://www.forbes.com/sites/raymondpierce/2021/05/06/the-racist-history-of-school-choice/
These people are against their money going to other people
It's more strategic. Student loan debt is a mechanism for controlling the employment prospects of college grads.
Public debt forgiveness becomes a method for funneling students into low paying, morally hazardous jobs (prosecutors, police, the public side of the MIC, education in underfunded neighborhoods, bureaucrat in a corrupt or underfunded agency) where you've got an incentive to keep your head down and do the work rather than organize your office or resist deplorable government policies.
Private industries, similarly, offer the better salaries doing the more morally repugnant work - mining and chemical manufacturing, big finance and HFT, pharma, automotive, credit and collections - which draws in the most talented people to apply their talents in the worst ways.
You're constantly asked to sell out your principles for a paycheck/debt relief, or the most invasive and obnoxious applications of technology. You're never going into business for yourself to challenge a corporate behemoth or pursuing public work that both benefits people and pays well. You're never going into activism or politics without a corporate paymaster.
Ever notice how many SCOTUS judges and Senators are in the Federalist Society or from the Heritage Foundation relative to the Sierra Club or the ACLU? A big part of that is simply about the money.
