Contributor at Western Free Press
Nancy Thorner is a writer, cellist, and Tea Party activist based in suburban Chicago who writes regularly for Western Free Press, Illinois Review, and The Heartland Institute's Freedom Pub blog. Nancy is active in the following organizations: The Heartland Institute, Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, Illinois Family Institute, Family-Pac, Republican Assembly of Lake County, and the Women's Republican Club of Lake Forest/Lake Bluff.
Latest posts by Nancy Thorner (see all)
- Exposing the Fantasy of Wind and Solar Power to Fuel America’s Economy - September 8, 2022
- Biden to Forgive Student Loan Debt - August 24, 2022
- Do Americans Have Cause to Distrust the FBI? - August 19, 2022
Rumblings that the Biden administration plans to “forgive” some student-loan debt for potentially millions of upper-class people earning up to $125,000 a year doesn’t sit well with many Americans. 
[..[ “Historically, one powerful check against this wasteful government and educational bloatedness was the fact that – in America – you had to responsibly pay for your own higher education.”
Now instead of taking away the punch bowl from the rich kids, ole Joe wants to make poor kids pay for the booze. Who will benefit most?
According to Brookings Institute the top richest 40% of households have “almost 60% of outstanding student debt.
By magically “forgiving” potentially billions of dollars in loan debt, Biden ignores the fact that these loans won’t disappear. The cost of the loans will be socialized to more people, e.g., many poor and working-class taxpayers, essentially more new government spending. Joe’s plan is bald-faced political pandering.
As our unpopular Democrat president is six months out from a competitive midterm election, he may believe that canceling college debt is good politics. Instead it’s horrible policy and could very well backfire at the ballot box.
But do Democrats even care, as it’s not unreasonable to question whether the ‘ballot box’ will be any less corrupt in the mid-terms than it was last time around?
First published at Illinois Review.
