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Very sensible answer
1) Debt forgiveness will mean taxpayers would have to assume the liability. I think net-net will be positive for the economy, but there may be some pain in higher inflation + higher taxes in the short term
2) True
3) Absolutely - I wonder if $10k is enough. If you have $200k in debt, $10k in relief is nothing. If you have $20k in debt, $10k is huge. I want to see the data on outstanding debt and be better informed on the topic.
I also want to address the fairness argument (i.e. I paid student loans, you didn't = moral hazard). More importantly, if a recent grad gets debt forgiveness but someone entering a university next year doesn't get the benefit... it just feels arbitrary and wrong.
Overall, I'd say this is a smart move politically, even if it's just kicking the can down the road and doesn't really help solve the underlying issue with tuition costs. The obscene thing is that you have to "afford" humanities degrees. It would be so easy to offer them in an inexpensive way, it's not like they require labs worth tens of million of dollars, you just need a room, some chairs, and a guy/gal who has read lots of books.
1. That's why I brought up bankruptcy. Taxpayers don't have to assume 100% liability, they can pay out anywhere from 5-50% of the liability and have the lenders assume the rest which is perfectly fair since they are the profit-seekers that drove a big part of the problem to begin with.
3. I don't see a true moral hazard here at all. It's like saying I graduated with a 3.8 GPA from the same university with the same major as my classmate but he got a 60K/year starting job while I only got a 40K/year entry job. It's no more a moral hazard than that which is to say it isn't really a moral hazard.
I agree that the underlying issue with tuition increases has to be addressed but that's a bigger issue with more moving parts.
I don't think this exchange is going anywhere. You think I'm being disingenuous by talking about inflation caused by this so anything I say will be see as carrying some agenda by you.
Besides, it's not just me saying this. Liberal leaning economists as far as I have seen almost unanimously agree on the inflation it will bring. Anyway, you also think my whole "blue-collar worker" talk is "disgusting right wing propaganda" so, again, I don't see how anything I say will have any value to you if you think I have these sinister motives.
Because your arguments are not based in reality but on right-wing scare tactics. I already provided the links and even conservative economic estimates say 0.1% to 0.2% inflation which is meaningless and unnoticeable by the average person (and smaller than yearly fluctuations in inflation from 2012-2020). So to use emotionally charged language about families suffering because of student debt forgiveness as you have when we are talking about something like a 0.15% potential increase is disingenuous and simply not accurate.
I don't think you have sinister motives, I think you've been had by right-wing talking points (perhaps stealth ones) and have not actually looked into this issue in a meaningful way.