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I don't have student loan debt because I started college in 1988 when 4yrs of tuition at a state flagship cost less than $10k, which made it a lot easier to graduate without student loan debt. That we haven't maintained at least this bargain over time is a scandal.
And if I started just four years earlier, my tuition would've been half that, $5k total for four years! Tuition at the University of Illinois doubled between 1984 and 1988 and it was still affordable. Imagine how great everyone born before 1964 had it.
Reganism fucked us people. It was put into place before Reagan (read @KBAndersen's Evil Geniuses), but it was brought to flower by his administration and now people have permanent brain worms that keep them from seeing that we can actually undo this crap.
It's just a choice. A choice. There's no immutable law that we can't do things that help people. All of this nonsense about regressive this, unfair that re: student loans is really freaking irritating. Kill the loans because its low hanging fruit administratively. Then do more.
Fund public post-secondary ed with public money. Massively increase what goes to the sorts of schools most people attend (non-selective, public, regional or community colleges). End the prestige economy for degrees and educate people. https://beltpublishing.com/products/sustainable-resilient-free-the-future-of-public-higher-education
This stuff is going to give me an aneurysm.
For those without debt who think you wouldn't benefit from forgiveness, I think about my home in which I have a big chunk of my future retirement invested and how I need some young person to come and buy this thing from me when it's time to go into the home.
This is desperation, folks. We're winning. All they have is warmed-over culture war B.S. and if we stay strong and fight with the real narrative, we'll win.
Cancelling debt and making public post-secondary education tuition-free. This even saves on aggregate resources going towards education. It's all in the book, I swear! https://beltpublishing.com/collections/pre-order/products/sustainable-resilient-free-the-future-of-public-higher-education
