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You can count me as one American who has categorically mixed feelings about President Biden’s decision to forgive a portion of student debt across the nation.<\/p>\n

Biden today said that anyone who earns $125,000 or less annually will see $20,000 taken off their student loan debt obligation. The president’s decision appears to be a compromise of sorts. Progressives want Biden to forgive a whole lot more; maybe even every penny that every American owes when they borrowed the money to pay for their college education. For my money, that was a non-starter.<\/p>\n

As for what the president has decided, it doesn’t do much for me one way or another. Twenty grand is no small amount of change.<\/p>\n

However, consider this aspect of the debt that these former students incurred: They did so willingly when they enrolled in college. Thus, aren’t they obligated to pay back what they borrowed?<\/p>\n

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My sons didn’t incur huge debt when they obtained their college degrees. My wife and took out a parent loan for one of our sons. We paid it off many years ago.\u00a0 We never one time considered asking for any sort of waiver or request a suspension of our payback obligation.<\/p>\n

I get that the pandemic brought a lot of havoc to families. Thus, to the extent that the president can seek forgiveness of debt on that basis, I guess that’s an acceptable reason.<\/p>\n

I just don’t understand fully the notion of forgiving the debts of those who incur them willingly and with a clear thought about the consequences of refusing to pay it back.<\/p>\n

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