The reverse class resentment on student debt/free college is disturbing.

[Midnightwalk]

26. There's a third stance that you ignore

I want to make it easier for people to afford college and pay off their loans. I disagree with people who argue in effect “I got screwed so the next generation should he too”.

But I know that is a sentiment that can’t be ignored. We need to maintain democratic control of government for multiple years. We’ve only had control 10 years sporadically over 52 years. That is the entire problem in a nutshell.

I also know there are legitimate fairness concerns. The student who takes out loans to go out of state for 4 years takes on a lot more debt than the student who stays in state and takes their general ed classes in community college. Is it worth worrying about that? It doesn’t keep me up nights but knowing the resentment it triggers I’d rather have some limits just to avoid feeding resentment.

If nothing else it leaves money to address other priorities or emergencies.

You didn’t mention Biden’s or any one else’s plan. Doesn’t go as far but also doesn’t cost as much. That’s the false argument I keep seeing “if you don’t want to do as much as sanders plan you are a corporatist republican disguised as a democrat”

I don’t agree with either of the extremes in this argument.