... but to ALSO adjust for the problems faced by those who've been screwed by college debt in the past too.
I've personally tried to make this point here in Oregon too, where we are making a great move to make Community college free starting in 2017. It's a big challenge with our state budget being limited, with our state corporate taxation being near the bottom of the country, which is something we want to fix now, and also other areas where we need to raise money. Revenue from freeing people through amnesty for past post crimes (that I personally helped push here) should also help us fund this too.
But I noted that not only from a sense of fairness, but even pragmatically for our party we should also be looking at helping some of those students graduating now or recent graduates that are completely saddled with debt here from having to pay so much for their college educations here now. Even if we try to just make the moves to start looking at practical legislation that we might not be able to afford in the near term or get passed in the short term, it will be a sign to those new young voters that will be voting shortly that are the biggest victims of existing college debt that we are working for them, so that they won't feel isolated and "left out" and we can count on their votes in this critical coming election too.
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