The Commies want to cancel student debt

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Cancellation of debt is a Judeo-Christian principle! ... If we were to instate the Old Testament debt rules, the likelihood of anyone taking on more debt than they can handle would drop precipitously—because the lenders would know they would have to forgive the debt if it weren’t paid back, and not just take money from taxpayers to pay for the “forgiven” debt.
I wonder if any modern economists have solidly considered the "Old Testament debt rules" and if so, what do they have to say about it? Worth looking in to.
 

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I, and most of my children, got through college before the huge inflation of tuition costs. This is a huge problem, albeit one that any reasonable person should have seen coming.

it's not just 4-year colleges, either; huge tuition increases for technical schools are the norm. And every time big money is involved, scammers show up. Hence the great increase of for-profit colleges, many poorly accredited or not accredited at all. Our current education secretary was involved in one of those scams, in which she convinced the state of Michigan to go with her new ideas.

She made Detroit schools worse. That's right; her company made them worse. Not surprisingly, when she got to be education secretary, she didn't forget where she came from...

Investigations Into For-Profit College Abuses Dismantled Under Betsy DeVos
May 15, 2018 update: Newly released documents obtained by Democracy Now suggest that former for-profit college official Robert Eitel -- now senior advisor to Education Department Secretary Betsy DeVos -- played a direct role in rolling back a rule designed to protect students defrauded by Eitel's former institution and other for-profit colleges. Eitel formerly worked for Bridgepoint Education, which in 2016 had to pay back tens of millions of dollars to students who were victims of deceptive loan practices. The documents appear to contradict the Education Department's assertion that former for-profit college officials hired by DeVos for top positions have not influenced department policy.

The Department of Education “has effectively killed investigations” into possible fraud at several prominent for-profit colleges, according to the New York Times.

These for-profit colleges, the paper reported, are places where the leading hires of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos used to work.

Investigators at a special team at the Education Department have been reassigned, sidelined or told to concentrate on other work, current and former employees told the Times. The department has been whittled down from more than a dozen to just three people, who have been assigned to paperwork regarding student loan forgiveness.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianah...gated-for-profit-college-abuses/#7b1a4d57ce0a

After WWII, a greatful America provided college at very low prices to the young men coming home. The result? An economy that boomed as they graduated and moved into jobs.

Now we're reversing the process. Not a smart move.

We need something like the GI Bill. Maybe four years of service in uniform, rebuilding infrastructure, in return for college tuition.

If not, we can look forward to continued decline and companies like those DeVoss is backing to continue to defraud students trying to get an education.
Colleges are an exalted institution among the unregenerate. The world encourages young people to go to expensive state and private colleges to get an education for the purpose of getting good jobs and getting rich. The secular mob does not tell most kids that a college education will not guarantee them a good job. Secularists do not tell kids that seeking to get rich often leads to horrific troubles in life just as the Bible says. What secularist leaders also do not tell kids is that getting rich will often end with the leftist socialist governments of the world demonizing them and seizing their riches in order to 'help the poor.'
 

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I wonder if any modern economists have solidly considered the "Old Testament debt rules" and if so, what do they have to say about it? Worth looking in to.
The OT does not encourage godless politicians to seize the assets of hard-working citizens so they can spend the money on the lazy, the irresponsible, the greedy, and the shiftless.
 

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The OT does not encourage godless politicians to seize the assets of hard-working citizens so they can spend the money on the lazy, the irresponsible, the greedy, and the shiftless.
Tough luck kid. You're going to get taxed and that money is going to get spent the way they see fit whether you like it or not.
 

marke

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Tough luck kid. You're going to get taxed and that money is going to get spent the way they see fit whether you like it or not.
I'm not losing big money to the government. Working Americans with no tax shelters, no overseas accounts, no charitable foundation piggy banks, no political connections to the IRS, and no billions of dollars bank accounts with which to buy off politicians in the business of formulating tax policies are the ones who are being robbed to fund big leftist spending projects.
 

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Democrat taxes are extremely high. Who does that hurt? Not poor people who depend upon the government for handouts. Not rich people who hide their money in foundations, tax shelters, and overseas accounts. Not politicians who get away with paying minimal taxes due to the inevitability the IRS will not prosecute leading democrats for tax evasion. And other assorted slimeballs and crooks. Who gets hurt by high taxes? The majority of Americans who are finding themselves powerless to stop democrats and their voter frauding election machines.

The combined state and federal capital gains tax rate in California would rise from the current 37.1 percent to 56.7 percent under President Biden’s American Families Plan, according to a new study from the Tax Foundation.
That increase, which would include federal, state and local taxes on financial gains from the sale of assets in California, represented the highest levy among the 50 states, the Tax Foundation’s analysis said.
Nationwide, the combined average capital gains tax rate would amount to an estimated 48.4 percent under the president’s proposal, with the top federal tax rate increasing to 43.4 percent, according to the report. That compares to the current combined average rate of about 29 percent, the study said.
 
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