Yep. Our economic thinking is completely upside down. Instead of asking “what it would cost,” we should be asking what it costs to keep all that money out of circulation.
Your daily reminder that cancelling student debt would have one of the largest bottom-up stimulus effects in American history. $1.8 trillion, currently going to loan servicers, would suddenly go toward housing, food and local businesses.

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We need jobs for when these students graduate
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If we'd remove the shackles of college loan debt off their backs, millions of our young people would live their own entrepreneurial dreams. They themselves would create jobs!
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If the tax payer is paying for it then the same amount of money would be coming out of circulation that is coming in.
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No, because it's not a zero sum game. People with money in their pocket then spend that money, creating more jobs just by doing so.
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Cash on hand is not only good for the economy... it has a relaxing effect.
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I’m so confused why nobody is going after the colleges and universities to help pay down the loans since their outrageous tuitions are the reasons the loans are so high. Why make the taxpayers pay for it?
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Wow ... That's Great!
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Exactly. And so our economic systems are doing exactly what they have been designed to do -- we need an overhaul on our economic values to place people over profits. Now, for shameless promotion of my latest essay, which dovetails w/ debt forgiveness! blueridgebreakdown.substack.…