The cancelled debt would specifically be excluded from income per Warren’s plan.

After watching Mayor Pete on CNN last night, not impressed and I wasn’t the only one...

I wonder if a good plan might be for the government to negotiate/buy the private debt, cancel it, and then collect taxes on the cancelled debt (which they’d have to do anyway since it counts as income)

She’s so far and away better than the other candidates. Like the others aren’t even close.

So I’ve been a bit peeved that *so much* focus among “progressives” has been on free college. Yes, student debt is stifling (ask me about my remaining 27k balance) and yes, it’s an issue that touches young voters.... but college is still a privilege that largely benefits the white middle/upper class. While it’s a…

There’s now literally no reason for Bernie supporters to not jump ship to Warren, an actual, viable candidate for the DNC.

Unless, of course, they were sexist dipshits all along.

Unfortunately, if you remove the 5% interest or whatever it is right now, universities will just use this as an excuse to raise their tuition another 5%.

The money I borrowed as a barely 18 year old getting advice from guidance counselors and every day Boomers who never had college debt and then watching in horror as the economy they thought would give me a job high-paying enough to pay that debt off crashed a year before I graduated? That money?

This times a thousand. Everyone I know in Asia lives with parents until 30's...and amazingly, they don’t suffer from CRIPPLING DEBT. And they tend to treat people better, have deeper relationships with family and are generally better rounded people. But yeah, let’s bag on someone for taking care of his mom for clicks. 

After all, it’s the parents generation that ensured the younger generation would end up worse off financially across the board, so live with them as long as you can! (yes this a broad generalization, and it’s actually my baby-boomer parents’s generation that screwed up the newest generation of young adults the…

it seems to be one of those wonderful things that people here still like because you can throw it at guys to show how worthles they are. but yeah, i lived at home longer than usual, and lemmie tell you, its so very fun to get slammed daily as an undesirable worthless kid man by people who otherwise pretend they have…

Like, for instance, how much more affordable it might be to live at home because the post-recession economy has made the costs of single living prohibitively expensive no matter where you live

I’ve been out of my mom’s house for 15 years now, and I might move back over the summer. And honestly, I’m a bit psyched about it. My mom is awesome, and we get along well. If I move in with her, we’ll be close to my sister and her kids. People who think living with your parents is some kind of scarlet letter have no…

Literally right here in the comment section, some wanker is arguing that she should be arrested for assault.

Don’t call it living with your parents. Call it living in family-centered communes. The idea that adult children should live in separate housing when their parents have plenty of room is capitalist and contributes to homelessness.

I love this: Parents are pre-vetted roommates who very likely enjoy the company of their adult children. It shouldn’t be that big a deal.

I think it’s a particularly stupid American idea...

It’s been proven that strong family ties are incredible boosters for mental health and a long life.

I think it’s a particularly stupid American idea that everyone needs to waste their money on housing in order to prove their worth as good little capitalists. That I have to be defensive and have an excuse for it to be OK for me to live with my mom is absurd. I would live with my mom even if I didn’t have this mental…

Should I point out that Pete has a serious mental illness, and that living with a parent is maybe not the worst/most pathetic idea for an employed, single adult who struggles with suicidal ideation and other self-harm issues? No? We’re going to continue making fun of everything this person does, even though he’s…