What? You want to burden student loan consumers, but you don't want the wealthy to be encumbered? What kind of **** is that? Sounds like just what I said, Republicans are against the middle class and for the wealthy.
I can see how you would believe that, what with all of your flamingly biased rhetoric aimed at Republicans. But think about this - had Sen. Warren
really wanted interest relief for students, she wouldn't have hitched that horse to the "double the taxes on the wealthy" wagon. It would have been it's own standalone provision. Interest makes the government money, but it doesn't
cost the government anything to lower the rate. Wouldn't it be a better idea to divorce the two - student loans and income generation - from each other within the government?
Her offer wasn't a real offer, nor more than if I offer to cut your grass for you one time, so long as you paint my house and repave my driveway first.
What in the hell do you mean paid for with what? Paid for with the same damn money that has been spent towards the Republican rat hole that is Iraq.
Uh, Iraq is over. Perhaps you haven't heard. And I don't see that money magically appearing anywhere else with the stroke of a pen. It's already eaten up by other programs. Not only was the cost of the war a very sore point for many Republicans (and especially those libertarians who trend Republican during elections), but I didn't hear Democrats complaining about it at the time, either, nor for the first few years of solid Democrat rule when there wasn't even a budget.
The university system in the US is dependent upon four year attendance; the community college system supplements the universities by way of filling in capacity for the traditional underclassmen who don't return to the third and fourth year of their educations. If you were to remove first and second year students from universities, you would instantaneously overpopulate the community college system (dramatically driving up costs, paid for now with taxes) and cause massive unemployment and cost overruns at public universities.
Sounds great. I bet the middle class would just LOVE a higher tax bill coupled to rampant unemployment in small university towns.
Study after study my ass.
EconPapers: Unemployment insurance and the distribution of unemployment spells
The Impact of the Potential Duration of Unemployment Benefits on the Duration of Unemployment
http://people.virginia.edu/~sns5r/classes/grad/econ871stf/meyer.pdf
http://www.nber.org/feldstein/aeajan8.pdf
The average length of unemployment
increases commensurate to an increase in UI benefits. There is also a pronounced spike in rehiring of UI benefit claimants upon the termination of their benefits, i.e. their job search suddenly becomes more fruitful when benefits are about to expire.
Imagine that.
The only thing that you have done is posted a bunch of stupid nonsense that demonstrates a profound inability to see what is actually happening. Republicans are screwing the middle class and are merely using them to create more wealth for the rich. If you can't see that you are blind.
Your ad hominem style of argument doesn't actually address the issues. I am not surprised.
Yes it would be nice if they did come up with some plans of their own. Why can't they? Because they have a hostility towards the middle class and want to use them to create more wealth for the wealthy. There isn't a damn thing bad about letting student loan customers refinance their loans. It's bad if you are a Republican that hates the middle class.
You are confusing the reluctance to adopt bad ideas with hostility for the class the ideas are allegedly trying to help.
If you can get over this whole us-vs-them mentality and actually examine what people are saying, perhaps you wouldn't come across like one of the bleating sheep Republicans and Democrats so love complaining about.