It’s been about two years since Americans made student loan payments

Boy if this isn’t a case of cutting of your nose to spite your face, I don’t know what is. Ultimately, tax payers are going to be the ones funding a student debt “bailout”. Now...what are we all? Tax payers. Let’s negotiate some lower rates and push the term out but forgive? How ignorantly short-sighted of an idea.

It is unacceptable that I made my loans, and I paid them off... responsibly and in a timely manner. So does that mean that I get a refund? Where do some of you people get these crazy assed ideas? Honestly. If this is insane enough to happen, then I want a damn refund before any irresponsible person gets off the hook.

Interest stopped for the past year and a half.

Student loan forgiveness is a huge transfer from the poor to the rich and polls underwater.  Absolutely terrible policy.

It is unacceptable that Americans still have to pay student loans.

This reminds me of the argument about teacher pay. No one goes into teaching for the pay, so you know what you’re getting. Therefore don’t complain about the pay.

Watch out, that kind of common sense isn’t allowed around here apparently (I agree wholeheartedly with you, by the way).

Disclaimer: I’ve paid off my loans, so factor that in when reading this.

It’s been about two years since Americans made student loan payments

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I really don’t know how its going to happen, so plan on it not happening. My family have already sucked it up over the Covid crisis and been paying it back making major concessions in lifestyle, and my wife has a huge load of debt (over 60,000 for two masters, and one more certification for counseling) and my daughter…

Won’t comment on this topic, but I will say this.. A good idea for the Democrats would be to start figuring out what we need in this country, in terms of education. IE, do we need more Computer Scientists, Rocket Engineers, Teachers, whatever.. Then start figuring out how we can start paying for THOSE degrees. It…

I’ve always felt like this is a reasonable compromise that you could probably get bipartisan support behind - the government still gets some money back and borrowers can actually stand a chance to pay them off. The problem isn’t the loans themselves, it’s the absurd interest rates. The increased tax revenue from…

I don’t think it’s unacceptable to expect people to pay off a loan they signed up for.  I payed mine....

Nope. Not buying your sob story. You took out the loans, you knew the repayment schedule, you knew your crappy degree wouldn’t produce a job to pay back what you owed. You also had two years to figure out a repayment plan, refinance, or save for your payments to resume.

they are loans not grants, not gifts.  Taking a loan for a car or house has to be paid back, how is a student loan different?

It’s called the Military, you get free college there. If you cannot participate, well that sucks, but it should be earned instead of just given. People are given far too much and they become dependent, such is the liberal way.
Also how I feel about all of the covid nonsense and how people still think it’s a plague

Some of these poll questions are real head scratchers:

quoting your coworker about how they don’t make enough to cover all of their bills should be a sign that you both need to find better work before those loans come back.