I'm not in favor of this level of debt forgiveness. I would be in favor of giving everyone X amount of money, if you make less than Y amount of money. That way those that need to use it for student debt can, and others could use it for other types of debt.
And the bigger problem is still addressing the skyrocketing tuition costs. Debt forgiveness only encourages the colleges to continue what they've been doing.
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