Biden's Loan Amnesty Passes the Buck
WASHINGTON -- "From day one, my administration has been committed to fixing the broken student loan system," President Joe Biden said to begin a video about his latest attempt to buy the college-graduate vote.
Whenever Biden calls something "broken," reach for your wallet.
According to the White House, Biden's student-loan forgiveness package should result in 4 million Americans seeing their college debt wiped clean; more than 10 million enjoying a reduction of $5,000 in debt relief; and the elimination of accrued interest for 23 million additional borrowers.
Forget, just for the moment, the cost to taxpayers.
What frosts me is the left's apparent belief that loans shouldn't be treated like, well, loans -- at least for folks who went to college. To liberals, it is just plain mean to argue that adults who benefit from higher education should pay off the loans they accepted with open eyes.
They don't seem to notice that college grads expect to make more money than most Americans, who never saw the inside of a college classroom.
During President Barack Obama's tenure, newspapers discovered people who had borrowed huge amounts of money to go to college; after they graduated, they had an ugly run-in with reality about the heft of their monthly payments. That was an especially painful revelation for those who enrolled in college only to drop out.
Obama himself complained in 2012 that his wife, Michelle, a fellow Harvard Law School graduate, and he had not paid off their loans until eight years earlier.
Well, that can happen when you choose the Ivy League.
"Forgiving loans," House Education and the Workforce Committee chair Virginia Foxx noted in a statement, is a "nonsensical term," since the loans "don't disappear but instead are forced upon taxpayers."
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