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Aunt Crabby Tweet #2: (Original Post)
applegrove
May 2022
OP
Works for me. They can use the money they would have spent on principal and interest...
patphil
May 2022
#3
AleksS
(1,665 posts)1. Can we call it a tax cut for college students?
Show it as a refundable tax credit equal to their current debt?
Bam. Its not cancelling their debt, its a tax cut!
patphil
(6,196 posts)3. Works for me. They can use the money they would have spent on principal and interest...
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
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
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...
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...