
Rhetoric that robs society: Why it would cost the Federal government nothing to cancel student debt
Conservatives love to talk about how expensive canceling student debt would be. In the words of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, federal student debt cancellation, even when means-tested, is “regressive, inflationary, expensive and would likely do more to increase the cost of higher education going forward than to reduce it.” Or as Forbes recently put it: “Canceling federal student loans will cost the federal government hundreds of billions of dollars – and it is the general public that will eventually end up footing the bill.” The author goes on to suggest that this “cost” imposed on taxpayers...
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