Elizabeth Warren’s College Plan Is a Dance with Elves
National Review Online,
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Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
4/24/2019 6:24:51 AM
Elizabeth Warren may be the least jolly member of the Senate, but she is nonetheless offering up her best Santa Claus impersonation as she seeks the Democratic presidential nomination, complete with a trillion-dollar-a-decade student-loan giveaway — to be paid for by those on her naughty list. Senator Warren proposes to pay off Americans’ student loans in a tiered fashion: Up to $50,000 in bailouts for those earning up to $100,000 a year, gradually phased out to $0.00 for those earning $250,000 a year or more. That would eliminate all student debt for about 75 percent of borrowers
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/24/2019 7:43:33 AM (No. 43734)
Taxpayers being put on the hook for the college attendance of other peoples´ snowflake, unsuccessful kids is not a popular notion. Being forced to pay for the first twelve years of liberal indoctrination is bad enough. The whole system is flawed and Warren is a liar. She knows it can´t be done.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
janjan 4/24/2019 8:11:39 AM (No. 43733)
I don’t think even the brainwashed mush heads will fall for this blatant pandering. Some of them are taxpayers themselves now. Do they really want to pay for everyone else’s college debt?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 4/24/2019 8:46:33 AM (No. 43740)
Everything that the Democrats and liberals offer up leads me to one basic opinion. In every situation, I can tell they do not have a relationship with God.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rinktum 4/24/2019 8:59:41 AM (No. 43742)
Do not underestimate the will of these young people to go out and vote. They look at it as an opportunity to stick it to the man. They have no qualms about voting illegally either. Many will vote twice, once by mail-in ballot using their home address and the other by registering at the campus they attend. Voting laws mean little to most of these socialists in training. After all their mantra is the end justifies the means.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
edgar 4/24/2019 9:24:17 AM (No. 43743)
When you have no ideas, offer free stuff. It goes over big with the left´s base.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Krause 4/24/2019 9:27:58 AM (No. 43747)
The ultimate dem goal to use the U.S. Treasury to buy placate the minorities and the uniformed, and buy votes.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jacksin5 4/24/2019 9:31:26 AM (No. 43741)
Lizzie, if you were expecting Big Money Donors for your warchest,they won´t finance anyone who would tax them out of existence.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
padiva 4/24/2019 9:50:09 AM (No. 43744)
What about the people who have paid off their student loans?
Liz needs to start a non-profit to provide free college. Let people donate to her cause.
The federal treasury is not her piggy bank. If it is such a great program, she will get the donations.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
davew 4/24/2019 10:18:22 AM (No. 43739)
Did she also explain that the IRS considers the debt relief as income and that the kids will need to pay $10000 or more in taxes in one lump sum?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 4/24/2019 10:43:12 AM (No. 43738)
The whole problem is government control of the student loan program. It is handed out like candy. No concern if the "student" will ever be able to pay it back.
It has enslaved millions. But then again, the democratic party is the party of slavery.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/24/2019 10:51:06 AM (No. 43748)
Let me get this right in this pre-election season. One socialist person wants me to pay restitution for slavery and I never owned a slave. Now Elizabeth Warren wants me to pay off the debts of some scatter brain kids who can´t find a job because they majored in African Studies and basket weaving while making a government loan to do this stupid stunt.
What fishing hole will the next socialist liberal try maybe free cars and fuel for the indoctrinated communist to commute to their jobs that they hate. Give us a break I have my problems and you have yours.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
HotRod 4/24/2019 10:55:45 AM (No. 43745)
You see why the democrats want 16-year olds to vote? ´´Free college! Go to the party school of your choice and don´t sweat the tuition! You can even choose one of the progressive colleges that don´t give grades! You will graduate for sure!´´
Sounds good to a 16-year old, right? When that kid is 26 or 36, and wondering why she can´t make a decent living, she will be sure to blame the wrong people.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Trapper 4/24/2019 11:33:02 AM (No. 43737)
It will start with cries of "Hey! What about ME?" from those who either paid off their college debt or never went in the first place. The complaints will quickly spread and, in the democrats´ attempts to appeal to everyone, Fauxcahontas´ free money program will quickly morph into a guaranteed universal income of $50k for everyone. Wait for it.
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It seems to me there is an easy solution to the problem. When I was an undergrad, people could not sign contracts or incur debts until they were 21.
Now it is 18, and any people under 21 don´t have the judgment and perspective to incur the large long-term debt involved with student loans.
Just require that student loans to persons under 21 must be cosigned by parents or other older financially responsible guarantors.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Franz 4/24/2019 12:21:02 PM (No. 43736)
Just another example of promising to giving away other people´s money to buy votes.
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Sorry —I meant to write "…many people under 21," not "…any people under 21."
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