Why Student Loan Forgiveness Might Be Good Politics
Why Student Loan Forgiveness Might Be Good Politics
August 26, 2022 at 2:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 0 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2022/08/26/why-student-loan-forgiveness-might-be-good-politics/
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Jonathan Bernstein: “What fever-pitch rhetoric combined with poor logic do tell us is that the decision sparked strong feelings. That alone could explain why Biden chose to move forward with the plan and why Republicans are opposing it so fiercely. Politicians don’t always read the mood accurately; the truth is that very few people get riled up about public-policy decisions, especially ones that don’t affect them personally. Unless, that is, their party works hard to get them upset in the first place.”
“So a lesson from the student debt debate is that politicians are always looking for policy questions that will engage their supporters.”
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