Young Minnesotans excited about
Biden's pitch to cancel $10,000
in student loan debt
Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN],
by
Ryan Faircloth
&
Zoë Jackson
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/28/2021 4:33:29 PM
Abdulaziz Mohamed can hardly fathom the idea of having his student loan debt wiped away. The University of Minnesota sophomore, who has amassed about $10,000 in debt, often thinks about his job prospects and whether he will be positioned to quickly pay off the loans. President Joe Biden's call to cancel $10,000 in federal student loan debt for all borrowers gives Mohamed hope of a future where young people aren't crushed by debt. "That would be a huge lift off my back," he said. The debate over how to tackle the mounting student debt crisis has intensified since Biden was elected,
"I have no chance at getting a job with my degree that will pay enough to pay off the loans I am taking to get that degree. So, I need the loans to be forgiven."
Or, maybe, if you can't earn enough to pay the loans with the degree you are planning to get, maybe you shouldn't tale out those loans in the first place.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
coyote 1/28/2021 4:41:03 PM (No. 677697)
How about the people that loaned him the money, are they enthusiastic too?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 1/28/2021 4:47:40 PM (No. 677702)
#1, it takes a real moron to decide to get a degree, where ther's "...no chance at getting a job with my degree that will pay enough to pay off the loans.."
We have a whole generation of idiots coming up, and that is literally destroying the entire country. Parents who failed to teach their children to think and be adults, and colleges who taught them to hate their country, and all sorts of lies about history.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Jiobaobubai 1/28/2021 4:48:20 PM (No. 677705)
mohamed can go fornicate with himself.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 1/28/2021 4:52:59 PM (No. 677715)
What about incoming college freshmen, class of 2025, who have to take out a loan since they need financial help but don't quality for a scholarship? What will Zhou Xiden do for those kids?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 1/28/2021 4:54:25 PM (No. 677718)
Golly, you mean a degree in Social Justice won't get a good paying job to pay off $100,000 in student loans? That's a tough one.
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Where’s my $10k for the student loans that I’ve paid for in good faith?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
msjena 1/28/2021 5:15:22 PM (No. 677752)
The people who loan him money are we, the taxpayers. I don't necessary oppose this as long as it is linked to reforms in the student loan program. There need to be lower caps on how much can be borrowed--maybe 25K for undergraduate total (including the usurious "Parent Plus" loans) Even that is a lot. Schools should have to compete for students by lowering their sticker price tuition. But as long as there is easy money from the government, they have no incentive to do so.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 1/28/2021 5:18:10 PM (No. 677755)
Abdulaziz Mohamed
these are the "Minnesotans" that voted for omar..
five times each
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W 1/28/2021 5:18:39 PM (No. 677758)
No one made you go to college. No one made you take out a loan to pay for the college that no one made you go to. No one made you take a major that has no employment potential. All of those choices were made by you. When you took out the loan you agreed to pay it back. Now, you say that it is a good thing that you don't have to suffer the consequences of the choices you made. I do believe that the college bears some responsibility for offering majors with no employable skills and charging confiscatory tuition, but that is another story.
You are responsible for the situation you are in and you will be a better person if you get yourself out of the predicament.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
msjena 1/28/2021 5:20:36 PM (No. 677759)
Sorry, need to add the following. The student loan program--and colleges--also take advantage of 17 and 18 year olds by telling them they need to take out big loans so they can go to college. It's almost fraudulent not to disclose in big print what the repayment obligation will look like when they graduate.
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Biden plans to cancel $10,000 in college loans as deadbeat says he can't get a job that pays enough with his worthless degree. Don't forget that with all that "free money" comes a tax bill of at least 25% that must paid in the current year and not spread out for many years over this losers' life of his loan.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 1/28/2021 5:35:34 PM (No. 677774)
Would not believe the IRS wouldn't consider this taxable income, as it would certainly be a benefit.
Also looks like a vote buying scheme, and the GOP needs to enthusiastically support this, because the Dems are counting on them opposing, and paint them as anti-student.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
ByteGuru 1/28/2021 5:37:08 PM (No. 677777)
There are three parts involved in financing a college education, the student, the educational institution (EI), and the lender. Of the three the EI is the only part that has no skin in the game. The student is motivated to prepare for their future. The lender (if private) is careful about to whom they lend money.
The EI however simply sets the price of attendance; take it or leave it. The EI does not care where you get the money only that it is paid in full in advance before attending. After receiving the money, the EI does not care if the student actually attends nor is the EI concerned about how the
student is going to repay the loan. Bottom line here is this: there is no market pressure on the EI to control costs or to deliver an acceptable product. And with the FedGov financing any amount the student borrows, the EI has no motivation to change.
And that is why the EIs are over-stuffed with lazy, overpaid, tenured leftists who think they are owed the life they have. Most deliver a crappy product that they would have been fired for 60 years ago.
The quickest fix for all this is to:
a) get FedGov out of the tuition lending business, and
b) make the EIs manage the loans completely from application to collections.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
msjena 1/28/2021 5:45:20 PM (No. 677788)
One more thought, sorry again. The lenders (ie, the government) bear a lot of the responsibility for the student loan crisis. Would a bank loan money to an 18 year old with no job so he could go to school? The sort-of answer, aside from not lending at all, is to lend less. How much can the average college graduate afford to pay back over 10 years? Not many, even those who major in areas likely to result in employment, can easily pay back 50K or or more over that period of time.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
chillijilli 1/28/2021 5:46:08 PM (No. 677790)
This is an ELITIST proposal and we should be screaming about it from the rooftops! What's this? If you go to college you get your loans forgiven but it instead you choose to go to a trades or technical school--- what then??? Tough luck, peon? How can that be equitable?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Avikingman 1/28/2021 5:48:34 PM (No. 677795)
Don't get me started.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Califedup 1/28/2021 5:52:36 PM (No. 677796)
Redistribute our money and buy the youth vote at the same time. A double win for the communist death democrats.
Remember the republicans betrayal did this to us. Never forget.
Free America!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
padiva 1/28/2021 5:53:22 PM (No. 677798)
How about 10G for my son who did not go to college?
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
mifla 1/28/2021 5:57:42 PM (No. 677802)
Vote buying is expensive.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
franq 1/28/2021 5:59:24 PM (No. 677806)
One of many asinine ideas to come from Buck N. Xiden's handlers. When Abdul hits the street looking for work, I'm sure there will be jobs aplenty as a government snitch.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
skacmar 1/28/2021 6:02:37 PM (No. 677813)
Since Biden is so into "EQUITY", how about he just give everyone who ever got a student loan $10,000.00 to do whatever they want with it. The current snowflakes can use it to pay off their "crushing student loan debt", and the rest of us who were responsible and paid off our loans can enjoy a nice vacation to make up for what we could not do when paying off our loans. After all, its only fair and equitable!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
jhpeters2 1/28/2021 6:08:31 PM (No. 677823)
FTA: "Anisa Omar, a 22-year-old Minnesota State University, Mankato graduate who's studying for law school, thinks Biden's pitch barely scratches the surface: "We're asking for cake and they're throwing us crumbs."" Another lawyer who needs to learn how to plug her food hole. Certain student loans might be worth forgiving, if any. Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics - maybe, and only if the borrower graduated. But another lawyer? Nah, we got all we need already.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
The Remnants 1/28/2021 6:37:35 PM (No. 677848)
In the spirit of justice and fairness for all,
this dictum should be retroactive for all of us
who struggled to pay off our college debts.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
CactusStar 1/28/2021 6:38:44 PM (No. 677850)
"Setting up the next generation of leaders and making sure that they're not incurring that much debt means a better economic future for the United States of America," Mohamed said. Really Mohamed, tell me how that works?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
udanja99 1/28/2021 6:48:43 PM (No. 677864)
Yeah. They’ll be really excited when they see their taxes skyrocket. That is if, and it’s a big if, they are able to find a job.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/28/2021 6:49:01 PM (No. 677865)
Young Somalis. Like Ilhan.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
earlybird 1/28/2021 6:51:47 PM (No. 677868)
Guess what Mohammed’s goal is?
Without the burden of thousands in student debt, Mohamed hopes more young people would pursue their passions and not feel pressure to enter high-paying fields. Mohamed is studying politics and economics and hopes to attend law school, even though it could put him deeper in debt.
"Setting up the next generation of leaders and making sure that they're not incurring that much debt means a better economic future for the United States of America," Mohamed said.
A Somalian Joe Biden.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 1/28/2021 7:00:17 PM (No. 677875)
Slackers want free stuff.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/28/2021 7:17:15 PM (No. 677890)
Ten thousand is chump change. A lot of college attendees have loan debt in the tens of thousands of dollars. My leftist relative had 90k in debt from grad school. She only had to be nice to her dad, and he would have paid the bill in full. To that I say good on her, but she showed him, by golly, by going into debt instead. She's a least smart enough to make enough money to easily pay it back; she just doesn't want to pay it ALL back. She won't be too happy with a mere 10k, though.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/28/2021 7:18:55 PM (No. 677891)
He needs to quit being a parasite and get a job now to pay his own way through school. I have not one ounce of sympathy for anyone heavily in debt for college or anything else.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/28/2021 8:11:28 PM (No. 677917)
$10k won’t buy a crappy used car. Amassed debt? Wait until he reaches adulthood.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/28/2021 8:12:39 PM (No. 677918)
Instead of cancelling the student debt for the people who majored in underwater basket weaving while in college, if Biden does anything to wipe away student debt, instead he should cancel the debts of all the doctors and nurses and their support personnel who have really been the essential workers in this country for the last year.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 1/28/2021 10:35:09 PM (No. 677984)
Why should people who never took on debt, some who worked right out of high school, built their own businesses, paid their own way through on a budget and didn't spend on Spring Break lavishness?
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
bamboozle 1/28/2021 11:02:44 PM (No. 677997)
Forgiven loans may very well be taxable income.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
SweetSweetback 1/28/2021 11:15:17 PM (No. 677999)
Then give me mah reparations for having paid my $100K loans off in ten years, through hard work and toil. Likewise for millions of others who did the same.
What have we become?
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
thewarden 1/28/2021 11:35:34 PM (No. 678006)
Ha ha. Sure. My lib sister works securing grants for the private “Catholic” college at which she works. Loves her 6-figure salary. This really ticks me off. Outrageous. My parents worked their behinds off and scrimped and saved to pay for college for 2 of us kids (the other 2 declined) and their hard work is now paying for the grandkids’ educations. How do we get that back to shore up my widowed mom’s retirement? Disgusting.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
smokincol 1/29/2021 12:18:21 AM (No. 678030)
they might get their student loans cancelled but twinkle toes joe will get them with the new tax rate,
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Won't someone consider Abdulaziz? Unless I'm mistaken, student loan debt can encompass more than just tuition; you can borrow X amount of money as a student, which can be used to pay credit card bills, offset rent, buy clothes, whatever. So-called advocates say this is a good first step, but is part of a systemic problem. In reality, all this does is increase the cost of university that much more, thus forcing it to become "free" and even more expensive for the saps who pay taxes.