This response is particularly maddening given that it is being voiced by many folks in the generation that actually DID have free or close to it college available to them through heavily-subsidized state school programs. So, basically Go F yourself, Grandpa. Your opinion means less than nothing to me.

THANK YOU! Enough with everyone pretending it wouldn’t go straight back into the economy (this goes for universal healthcare naysayers too - we see you!!!!)

I find this extremely frustrating. Everyone told us growing up the only option was to go to college and get the degree otherwise we would be doomed to a life of mediocrity. In fact when I didn’t go to college right away (I did two years of community college then took a break till I was 25 when I finished up) My family…

you’d think they’d like it because not having to pay student loans and having cheap childcare would get their Millennial kids to finally pop out some grandkids so Boomers would have something to do other than watch Fox News and bitch about how the world doesn’t think they’re cool anymore.

I was about to say “This plan gives you Boomer dicks grandkids, you should all be on board.”

Calculate the boomer cost of college vs the cost of when the student went and only forgive the difference. That should make boomers happy, yeah?

It’s kind of weird that older voters are upset over the idea of student loan forgiveness. More and more of them are being saddled with student loan debt after their kids default:

“But it’s supported systemically by those who profit off of it”

Calling degrees “worthless” just because they don’t necessarily translate to a high-income position post-college is so, so idiotic. 

It is completely bananas how much we pay for college. I went to community college for the first 2 years of undergrad in the late 90's/early aughts and thankfully that cost me less about $1,000 a semester. I could barely afford that. I had to work full time to pay tuition and rent but I lived in a relatively low cost…

Then every one of those babies should either be named Elizabeth or Warren so future generations can see how this policy worked out. 

Right? My not being able to pay off my Master’s has nothing to do with working at Starbucks and everything to do with being told I need to get this degree in order to teach and then turning around and saying, you got the degree, but now we won’t hire you because you have experience and education that’s too costly.

1993 was the last year an undergraduate could pay a year of tuition through a summer time minimum wage job.

“i have a worthless liberal arts degree and this minimum wage barista job means i can’t afford to pay it back” feels like someone who never took their obligation seriously to begin with - they did not plan for how to pay it back.

The cost of college is untenable. I know at the University of MN a huge chunk of the budget goes to cover the also untenable health insurance costs of current and pensioned employees, which is another point in favor of single-payer healthcare.

What a shitty take. 

It might be anecdotal, but in my immediate circle, this is true almost across the board. Most of my friends are in their early to mid thirties and most of them aren’t buying a house/having a baby because their student loan debt repayment is still so high that it takes up a significant chunk of their incomes. 

Student loan debt isn’t the same as materialistic debt, conflating the 2 is asinine.

The baby boomers before us went to college for a FRACTION of what it costs now - my parents boast of community college courses either being free, OR CLASSES TOTALING $15 a semester. Compare that to the 20K it costs for a 4 year degree at a state school (that’s the cost if you live at home - god forbid you need money…

A massive wipe of student debt in the U.S. would trigger a huge spending boom in housing and autos, and probably bump up birth rates as young Americans who were looking down the barrel of decades of debt would decide they could have the 2.5 kids their parents had. And all the critics are going to worry about is that…