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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
It's definitely a bad idea to tie the two together. Too many what-ifs just in the offset.
What if you have had COVID and are on the backend of the availability list, but need the money now?
What if you can't take the vaccine for a legitimate (not just out of fear) reason?
What if the vaccine is delayed to your area because it's a lower risk area, or doesn't have the appropriate storage equipment?
etc..
Its the same with this moronic idea of "forgiving" student loan debt.
What if you were diligent and saved for college so you don't have loan, but your buddy used his "student loan" to take a spring break trip to Figi?
What if you don't have student loan debt because your parents lived like paupers for 4 years to help you get through?
You get the idea.
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I agree on the COVID stuff, as those are all good points, but to your analogy, while I get your point, I’m for student loan forgiveness of some kind, and I think public college should be free. I think certain jobs should get more relief based on the need for workers in that field, so someone majoring in 13th century Asian art shouldn’t get the type of relief a teacher or doctor gets. They should zero the interest on the loans and if someone already has paid more in interest than their borrowed amount then they should be completely forgiven. A salary based repayment system that isn’t as bad as the system we have now would be good too. I could go on. Inherently, any system will not be perfectly fair, but it would be better than the current system where we saddle students with debt and hold that over them, and where we have a system of financial barriers in place to higher education, and where we have a system where wealth and not merit often determines what schools people can attend.