“If they give it to the poor they call it a handout; if they give it to the rich they call it a subsidy.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
But cancelling student debt is a regressive giveaway to the 44 million “rich” Americans who couldn’t pay for college. 🙄

May 5, 2022 · 11:36 PM UTC

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Do you still think the Democrats can be reformed? Evidence suggests otherwise.
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What happens next year. You’ll have to make it free for them to or else be “inequitable” and “racist” so that it becomes free. Then the teachers cannot get paid properly, the good ones leave, or the citizens (namely the working poor) have to pick up the tab 4 doctors and lawyers
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100%. Bailouts for the wealthy, rugged individualism for the poor.
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Your fair cut of joes $2T rELieF was over $6000 ...most poor didn't even get that
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Biden ‘forgiving’ dept is illegal. Subsidies which are often bad are not illegal. They do not share a moral category but are linked-gov loans ARE subsidies to the colleges. And like many subsidies they have distorted the market and the institutions they were designed to help
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I feel like ‘no taxation without representation‘ is coming back as a chant soon
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And yet you still support Democrats. 🤷‍♂️
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Simon says: The key thing, of course, is that by giving it to the rich they get a little part of it back as a tribute. If they were to give it to the poor they wouldn't get anything.
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When it's actually vice-versa.