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AleksS

(1,665 posts)
1. Can we call it a tax cut for college students?
Mon May 2, 2022, 05:18 PM
May 2022

Show it as a refundable tax credit equal to their current debt?

Bam. It’s not cancelling their debt, it’s a tax cut!

patphil

(6,196 posts)
3. Works for me. They can use the money they would have spent on principal and interest...
Mon May 2, 2022, 06:52 PM
May 2022

for things like food, clothing, shelter, transportation, communication, and entertainment.
All of those things plow money back into the economy.
It's a terrific investment in the expansion of the economy and the future of the nation.

KS Toronado

(17,293 posts)
2. Journalists should be asking R congress critters
Mon May 2, 2022, 06:28 PM
May 2022

to explain with facts and figures how trickle down works to benefit the poor and middle class.

SWBTATTReg

(22,156 posts)
4. How true this is. We should throw this into the faces of every single republican that voted for
Mon May 2, 2022, 06:55 PM
May 2022

the tax cuts of 2017 that gave these billionaires so much and us so little.

druidity33

(6,446 posts)
5. Is Biden really talking about...
Mon May 2, 2022, 08:14 PM
May 2022

1.9 Trillion in student loan forgiveness? Pretty sure it is A LOT less than that. I had heard he was going to limit it to $10,000 per borrower...



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