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If young adults can make permanent, major changes to their bodies, they can repay the money they borrowed to go to college.
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced plans to “forgive” $10,000-$20,000 of student loans, circumventing Congress while simultaneously violating the U.S. Constitution and federal law .
Not only is this plan illegal, as the president doesn’t have the authority to spend unappropriated money, but it is downright offensive to those of us who paid off our student loans. It is even more offensive that the same people who insist that young people shouldn’t be burdened by their outstanding loan balances tend to believe that young people have the capacity to fully consent to body mutilation and chemically induced sterilization.
Leftists have been whining about the “burden” of student loans for many years. Articles packed with anecdotes have told us how young men and women struggle with huge loan balances while working barely above minimum wage.
Covid may have thrown us all a curveball, but let’s get one thing straight: If you can get a fake penis made with a skin graft of your wrist at 18 (or younger, according to some), you can take care of your own loans. If 18-year-olds are mature enough to understand the long-term consequences of genital mutilation and wrong-sex hormones and are empowered to irreversibly disfigure themselves, they are mature enough to pay back their loans.
It is a despicable, infantilizing notion that high school seniors cannot read terms of service or solicit financial advice from their parents and mentors about how to manage personal debt or that they cannot research the economic environment they might graduate into and what options they have for repayment.
People act like income-based repayment doesn’t exist. It does, and there are other kinds of repayment plans available, as well, that allow people to […]
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