I'm definitely with you on this! Why should skilled working people like welders and auto mechanics or unskilled people like janitors and fruit pickers pay for a lawyer's (eventually politician) degree or worthless degrees in [you name it] studies?

I also STRONGLY suspect this will drive up the cost of education (indoctrination?) and lower the quality. Look at American public schools now, then put that on steroids.

it is also 100% unconstitutional

Redistribution of wealth and "evening our the playing field" for equal results. It's a screw job, no doubt. The progs really want "free college", which anybody who's gotten through 1st grade math knows there can't be "free college". We're in a new dark age in the west and Idiocracy is now...

They chose stupid degrees with no viable plan to succeed. They should be held accountable. Unless, for moment, let's blame the Universities for capitalizing on all the student loan money. They coax millions of naïve young people to pay for worthless degrees without care for the results. Let's punish them. All university programs with employment rates under 50% for graduates are eliminated. No more Women's Studies.

Students are allowed to return degrees for a refund just like any defective thing you buy on Amazon. The University must pay everyone back, but the student must give up the degree too, to be let off the hook. That's fair.

Students beware. Get a trade school certificate. Let them stack bricks. Because it pays better, and it's useful too.

All federal government subsidy of education is absurd. And unConstitutional. The Dept of Education should be eliminated immediately as well as ALL federal grants and loan guarantees. Want to know what would immediately happen? Public colleges and universities would be forced to revise their curriculum and lower their prices as lots of people would no longer be able to afford their inflated costs.

Personally, I think that if you can't get a loan from your bank to attend college and the college itself won't do it, you should find some other line of work. We've got a glut of "service" jobs and not nearly enough labor jobs IMHO.

This is a Jackass Party jackass idea to increase Democrat voters to obtain one party rule.
It is the same reason our Puppet-In-Chief's Marxist handlers allowed unconstitutional open borders to allow the invasion of five million illegals to date.
Yep. five million to date. That's what I read somewhere both yesterday and today. And that's only those who were counted coming in.
We The People are supposed to pay for all that criminality too.

The cost of college has skyrocketed because the government gives easy loans to people who are basically uneducatable, many of them should have stopped at middle school.

But the colleges see all this free loan money and lower their requirements so that any idiot can get in and hand the college cash for vastly overpriced books, substandard housing, overpriced meals and a subpar education.

Yes.

If I could have afforded to finish my degree and had any indication my debts would have been covered or even cancelled, I would have. Those who did finish and who did pay their debts off should be screaming loudly about this. Those who are not are card carrying members of the FSA (Free $hit Army)!

Lets see...a wealth transfer from the middle class to upper class kids who cant be bothered to pay for their gender studies degrees....however...one bright spot here....the IRS is hiring 87,000 new agents....I bet you a gender studies degree will actually help you get a job there.

Let's encourage young people, by the millions, to get degrees in Underwater Basket Weaving, and rack up six-figure student loan debt, in the process!
What could go wrong?

Not all of us chose stupid degrees. I have an M.S. in Management Information Systems and have worked in the IT field for 15 years before I moved over to K-12 teaching. I was never able to get a job in IT paying above 30k; therefore, never could afford the payments. Now that I am teaching high school math, I make more but even by their figures I will never make enough to repay my student loans.

I am not for cancelling student debt but I am certainly for some kind of way of mitigating the damage that this debt is doing and has done to me financially.

My initial thought is that if an employer requires a degree from an employee (like all of my IT jobs and my teaching career) that the employer pick up the student loan payments for the duration and then once the student loan is paid off the employee gets a raise equivalent to the payment that the employer was making. My reasoning here is that I have several times taken positions that "required" a degree in my degree field then the work was easily preformed without said degree and of course the pay was far below what it should have been for the "requirements" Additionally, higher education is VASTLY over priced.

Those who keep coming up with lunacy vote buying schemes such as that prove that the asylum is being run by the inmates and that the populace that put them in power are as corrupt as the politicians they elect! Truth be told!

If that bill passes, I want all my money back that I paid out-of-pocket, including for text books I needed to earn my degree.
Why should I be punished for doing the right thing?
This just keeps happening over and over. Savings and loan debacle (Bushes) Mortgage failures. Dot Com Boom and bust. I started my 401K the first day anyone was allowed to. I have lost every dollar of profit in three enormous "corrections". I would have been far better off buying gold and silver and hiding it under my bed.
Wall Street are thieves and liars. Not to mention the founders of the see eye aye.

Noticing a pattern yet?

And what about the students that paid their student loans and the families that helped them graduate debt free? Double taxation.

I understand the people's outrage, and I think that that can be thrown out after the next November election. The only thing that could have given the idea a think veneer of plausibility would have been if they let the ex-students sue the colleges for criminal fraud for charging them for teaching them courses that did not enable them to make a living.

I see both sides of the coin on this argument. Do I agree with cancelling all student debt? Hell no! Especially if you chose to major in a field where employment opportunities are sparse. However, there is a program out there called the Public Safety Loan Forgiveness program where people who chose to work in a field such as law enforcement or emergency services can make 120 qualifying payments and have the remainder of their loan waived. There is also a similar program for those who chose to go into teaching careers. I feel that those programs are justified as the people participating in them are working and making payments. They just didn't take the money, get a useless degree, and expect to not have to pay the money back while they get money from the government for not working.

Isn't allowing banks to borrow at low percent interest rates more of an issue than cancelling student loan debt?
Consider for a moment that banks get money at lower rates than individuals who take any kind of loan, let's say 2%. Okay.
Government and private student loan companies charge students 8 to 9% interest on loans.
How is anyone okay bashing students for taking out loans to go to school to become a doctor to help people over bashing the banks and the systems we have in place allowing this to happen.
Just saying...

I think more absurd is the loaning money by the government for education. There are financial institutions for that, the government has no business in the money lending industry and the practice needs to be stopped!

My daughter and son-in-law got student loans for usable practical degrees and have shorted themselves for years paying those loans off. Any lazy-assed worthless basket101 graduate owes their tuition to my two hard-working kids!

A free market solution would be to allow private lenders to set loan interest and payback based on the average salary and employment of the graduates for the degree chosen. Industries looking for high tech employees could set their own rules, with some paying for the education, and forgiving payback after a number of years of employment.

Universities are wallowing in cash, primarily because the government picks up the tab without penalty for meaningless degrees. Gender studies, art or music appreciation degrees should be strictly cash only.