• solrize@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Can they call it a bailout instead of debt relief? That would make it more popular with Congress.

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      2 months ago

      Why don’t all those with student debt just form a corporation together? Then they’d be too big to fail and require a bailout.

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        2 months ago

        Can’t you buy medical debt for a fraction of what is owed from collections agencies? Can a bunch of people do the same thing with student loan debt?

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          Yes, and John Oliver once did a segment on Last Week Tonight where they bought and canceled some debts to prove it.

          Too bad the Venn diagram of the ultra-wealthy and people who would actually do that is more or less two distinct circles.

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      2 months ago

      They will need to say it is an entrepreneurial bailout to make it seem business related.

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    That’s weird since I just got an email for a “payment due” on 8/15. It is so fucking exhausting to try to keep up with all the bajillion different “payment plans” and if you don’t choose the right one based on all the misinformation out there then fuck you, you don’t get the tasty breadcrumbs we’re leaving in hidden corners.

    I am so tired of my student loan payments changing or being threatened to change all the time. Just tell me how much I owe you each month and leave me the fuck alone. I need to focus on budgeting groceries.

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      I’m raising your rent since you’re not paying your student loans right now

      But I don’t have any student loans.

      Ah-hah! That means you have extra money at the end of the month for savings that should go to me!

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    1 month ago

    Since he’s on his way out he should do what the people really want.

    Turn the post office into a bank

    Lift cap on SSI tax

    Legalize weed

    Close tax loopholes

    Medicaid for all

    Stop real estate investors

    End lobbying

    Publicly financed political campaigns

    Supreme Court ethics rules

    And that is only listing a few of the many problems this country faces. Just as a quick out the door executive order. Like DeSantis does