dagblog - Comments for " “The Distributional Effects of Student Loan Forgiveness”" http://dagblog.com/link/distributional-effects-student-loan-forgiveness-33215 Comments for " “The Distributional Effects of Student Loan Forgiveness”" en Student loan debt forgiveness http://dagblog.com/comment/294818#comment-294818 <a id="comment-294818"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/distributional-effects-student-loan-forgiveness-33215"> “The Distributional Effects of Student Loan Forgiveness”</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><a href="https://www.ksnblocal4.com/2020/12/02/bidens-student-loan-forgiveness-could-wipe-out-debt-for-15-million-borrowers/">Student loan debt forgiveness would be an absolute win for millenials. </a></p> <p>Also, the Reason argument could be applied to the stimulus given out when COVID occurred, or Yang's hypothetical $1000 a month. Reason magazine is largely Objectivists who are against government doing much of anything.</p> </div></div></div> Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:23:21 +0000 Orion comment 294818 at http://dagblog.com this libertarian argument http://dagblog.com/comment/294812#comment-294812 <a id="comment-294812"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/distributional-effects-student-loan-forgiveness-33215"> “The Distributional Effects of Student Loan Forgiveness”</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>this libertarian argument focuses among other things on the point that such debt forgiveness would be taxable income:</p> <p> </p><div class="media_embed"> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" height="" width=""> <p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Student loan forgiveness would have less of a positive economic impact than many of its proponents say—a point that even some progressives openly acknowledge <a href="https://t.co/RlCzrlyC5d">https://t.co/RlCzrlyC5d</a></p> — reason (@reason) <a href="https://twitter.com/reason/status/1334253013515423745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 2, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" height="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" width=""></script></div> </div></div></div> Wed, 02 Dec 2020 21:49:06 +0000 artappraiser comment 294812 at http://dagblog.com