AOC to those who paid off student loans: 'We can support things we we won't directly benefit from'

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98. A problem is that you have more than a few here who are against any amount of forgiveness, even if

is wealth-capped, even if the amount forgiven is $10K. I have seen this over and over, have had interactions with some who resolutely say no no no, even when you prise it out of them that their total costs when they earned their degrees were vastly lower (sometimes by a factor of 10 or 20 times less) compared to today's costs (total costs on a national average for a 4 year public bachelors degree in now iver 100K USD).

As I said above in the thread, some simply revert to a classic IGMSFY/drawbridge stance of (again paraphrasing) 'suck it up, buttercup'.

I even had one who said NO, never, to any adjustments to the interest rates charged (let alone forgive some or all of the interest).

That all, when taken in toto, is the stuff of electoral madness. If Biden adopted and verbalised those posters' stances, we would get flayed alive with the 44yo and under voters, especially the 32yo and unders. There are plenty of older voters too who are still paying off student loan debt.

2024 will be the first election where Millennials and Gen Z equal the actual VOTES, not just potential voters, of Boomers and up, and add in Xennials (born 1977-80), will pass them.

To go full stop NO to doing anything about it would be a disaster.