Do/Did You Have Student Loans?

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Student Loans?

  1. No

  2. Yes - 100% Paid off

  3. Yes - I'll be able to pay them off in 2-4 years

  4. Yes - I doubt I will be able to pay them off before Texas is actually back

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  1. The Hebrew Husker

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    Wasted the first few years paying the minimum (more so due to minimum income at my first job). Then finally revised the payment plan which helped.

    About a year ago, I refinanced them at SoFi because I got a lower rate and have been paying about 750 a month to try to get everything paid off by the end of 2021 and just be done with them.
     
  2. Truman

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    What if the debt wasnt repaid by tax payers, and by another mode of action? Would that shift your concern about debt cancellation?
     
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  3. soulfly

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    I’m an only child and my parents paid for my schooling :welpseeyalater:
     
  4. Daniel Ocean

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    Biden can do one with an EO but not the give funds with one. We need to do both. Forgive my student debt and I promise I’ll stimulate the economy.
     
  5. CUAngler

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    Had about 120k and my wife had 60k or so.

    I technically paid mine down to about 60k and then had a rural health type grant pay off the rest. Technically I have a few thousand left on my tab that will get paid up in a year and a half, but I haven’t had to send in 1k/mo for a while, so that’s been nice. Wife has about 30k left I think.

    all for any type of forgiveness. I would be happy for everyone.
     
  6. Tro lo lo

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    This. I was raised by two high school educated parents to believe that A) college was a necessity and B) you go to the best school you get into. There was no guidance from, ironically, guidance counselors, relating to the astronomical differences in cost between state school and private school in NY, and I really could have used it, given my major was education. Then, after four years of private school loans, you are told "Oh, you need a Masters to teach in NY."
     
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  7. Iron Mickey

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    it's amazing. absolutely amazing. that coupled with the hair pulling about who will pay for it as if dumb neoliberal talking points from the 90s are real. spoiler alert: public service programs at the federal level aren't fucking funded by taxes, that isn't how anything works.
     
  8. Todd Bonzales

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    Did you ever go to French Polynesia or not, Jesus Christ you left me hanging for years.
     
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  9. Where Eagles Dare

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    It's been explained to him a few times, even with statistics regarding not all are college graduates with debt and most are on payment reduced plans because of lower income thresholds. He doesn't want to hear it b/c he "feels" a certain way and admittedly hasn't done any research.
     
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  10. Bo Pelinis

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    #Pissup
     
  11. buy_dont_lease

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    Had a low-ish six-figure sum between my wife and I. From day one we paid our loans on the 10-year payment plan which was painful early on but has kept us on track. Here and there we have paid off smaller loans when we could and applied the monthly savings to the remaining loans. We just paid off a big piece last month and now only have one left, in the low five figures. I'll have it paid off in a year at best, two years if I make no additional payments. We'll end up taking 8-9 years to pay off everything. Only downside is the remaining amount was refi-ed into a private loan about three years ago, so that won't be forgiven.

    Obviously I have no issue with forgiving people's loans, I think it could have a huge economic impact in the aggregate and changes people's lives on the personal level. But it does not address the underlying problem of our broken higher education system and how education is financed, and we'll be right back at square one with another generation in 15-20 years. But it's better than nothing.
     
  12. SmoochieWallace

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    I just finished paying off ~$120k in law school loans this year. I was on the 10-year plan but knocked it out in 6 by refinancing and dumping bonuses into it.
    :dennard:
     
  13. Bo Pelinis

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    Pissup Platform

    1. Free public education 3-23
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    4. Reparations
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    6. Iowa doesn't get to caucus anymore and doesn't get to go first sorry not sorry.
    7. Down with the electoral college
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  14. Rusty Shackleford

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    Started with about 300K and now down to about 173K. It will absolutely be worth it but can be psychologically daunting at times. I have a cartoonish amount of debt between a mortgage, student loans and business loans.

    I think I have read the term predatory about 20 times in the last 3 pages. Pumping more money into the predatory system is only going to cause more problems. Unless there is some meaningful reform to the system that caps the amount that borrowers can take out we are going to continue to have problems. Just providing blanket forgiveness is not a good solution.

    If they want to stimulate the economy just write people checks. If they want to help out people with a crippling amount of student debt they need to include reforming the system with any forgiveness.
     
  15. Truman

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    Rank choice voting and a federal jobs program instead of UBI
     
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  16. Bo Pelinis

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    I'd be fine with that. We can finally do #infrastructureweek
     
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  17. Jake Scott

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    but in all seriousness, student loans won't be forgiven right?
     
  18. FadeMe

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    Go on.
     
  19. electronic

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    This is such a weird take.

    The guy next to you is about to grab a gun on the table next to you and shoot somebody, but instead of just taking the gun off the table, you’re arguing that we should pass common sense gun laws before you grab the gun.

    Yes common sense gun laws are good, and yes they should be passed, and yes, grabbing the gun won’t solve the structural problems, but grabbing the gun is really fucking easy, does a whole shitload of good, and has probably literally zero downside.
     
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  20. Bruce Bowen

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    Biden's original plan was $10k off all federal loans right away. I know there was the viral tweet saying he could knock off $50k with an EO if he wanted but I have no idea if there is any traction there or if something happened/was said to sprout this discussion.
     
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  21. Jake Scott

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    What's Biden's plan now?
     
  22. Truman

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    We kinda had this discussion in the Presidential Election thread which is what spawned this one.

    Despite what we’ve been taught growing up and how our politician act, our federal government isn’t reliant on tax revenue to fund expenditures. Our government hasn’t worked that way since we moved off the gold standard.

    The national debt isn’t crippling to the government at all, and certainly not the same way personal debt is crippling to you or me or a small business.

    The fact of the matter is all it takes to fund government expenditures is congress passing an appropriations bill and the federal reserve releasing the corresponding dollars. The government as already paid the colleges. It’s just a matter of changing the college debt on a balance sheet to zero. No tax payer money needs to be used to replace it on the balance sheet

    It’s as simple as that, as counter intuitive as it sounds.
     
    #172 Truman, Nov 17, 2020
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  23. Bo Pelinis

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    Money in and out doesn't mean anything when you print the money and it's the world's reserve currency.
     
  24. wes tegg

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    Ha! No, we went to Bali instead.
     
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  25. Rusty Shackleford

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    I don't think you are taking the gun off the table. You are taking the person away from the table. There is a benefit to doing that but it isn't without downside.

    You make it more likely for people to sit at the table in the future because they think there is a chance that someone will come remove them later. The people that put the gun there are also not facing any consequences of putting the gun there. They are being incentivized to put more guns there.
     
  26. Bruce Bowen

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    I would assume his original as he hasn't said otherwise but it seems like progressives in Congress are pushing hard for all forgiveness.
     
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  27. wes tegg

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    I think we should forgive student debt and fix the system, including punishing colleges for price gouging.
     
  28. RSK

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    It blows my mind that you support something like this then vote Republican
     
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  29. killerwvu

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    He said yesterday at his PC, 10k.
     
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  30. electronic

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    Great point. Doing nothing is the better option.
     
  31. Bruce Bowen

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    I stand corrected. I just had seen the following in the nyt:
    He then offered an overview of plans he introduced during his campaign, including ensuring that anyone whose families made less than $125,000 would have access to free education.

    But in his answer, Mr. Biden did not explicitly say whether he supported canceling all student-loan debt. Nor did he say if he would cancel student-loan debt through executive action — animating progressives, who have been seeking to push him further left on the issue for months.

    Social media soon lit up with calls on the left for Mr. Biden to cancel all student debt, a signature policy issue championed by progressive leaders including Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
     
  32. Homo Erectus

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    The GOP selling him as this crazy socialist is bullshit. I hate how everyone just let's them frame every subject. Hopefully he does the right thing.
     
  33. 49ers169

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    I personally didn’t but wife had about $60k. Should be done in the next two years having paid them off in 6ish years.
     
  34. Homo Erectus

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    My best friend has been out of law school about 6 years and is doing the same thing. He's been living on the cheap & dumping 90% of his sizable yearly bonus. He owed about $160k and is down to about $20k. He will pay them off next year.
     
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  35. FadeMe

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    Honestly, I don't know why I feel that way. Blame it on my podunk, country ass, small town ignorance raising. I completely agree that this scam is fucking me and a whole generation of people. I'm just skeptical of the trillion dollar debt number being replaced with a zero and everyone just moving on and acting like it never happened.
     
  36. FadeMe

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    That makes sense. Is that how Biden would pursue it?
     
  37. Rusty Shackleford

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    That’s what I said. You don’t do one without the other. I am opposed to forgiveness alone.

    If you want to stimulate the economy just cut checks to people. Don’t exacerbate the student loan crisis.
     
  38. wes tegg

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    I get an argument that it doesn't fix the student loan crisis, but how would forgiveness exacerbate it?
     
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  39. Truman

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    Idk the specifics but the way the Dems are talking, they can do it via executive action.
     
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  40. Lawnole23

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    I had about $250,000 combined with my wife. Most of mine was at 8.5%. I had my Dad pay off my 8.5% loans for me and I paid him back with 4.0% interest. Luckily bought two homes at the bottom of the market and sold at the top. Used the profits to pay off everything.
     
  41. Gallant Knight

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    ...i don't vote republican?
     
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  42. Rusty Shackleford

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    The problem with student loan system isn’t the fact that we are providing money to education. The problem is we are providing uncapped federally guaranteed money to objectively uneducated people without an limits.

    What they are proposing is to indirectly pump more money into the same system. It will effect the decision making of the borrowers and the people charging for the education.
    Timmy is going to say fuck it let’s take out an extra 10% because future me will pay it off or the government will.
     
  43. momux

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    I suppose the argument here is that if you don't change the underlying system that led to the current student loan crisis you've now set the expectation that the federal government will bail people out when things get bad, which may encourage more reckless/risky loan taking behavior.

    Not saying I agree with that, but that's an argument that could be made.
     
  44. wes tegg

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    Federal student loans are capped to the borrower, though. They're tied to tuition.
     
  45. Gallant Knight

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    sort of feel like an old dude opining on a woman's right to choose here as i didnt have any student loans thanks to scholarships, dad's help and working through school but...

    why should any debt be forgiven for folks who went to overpriced private schools and/or grad school?

    the solution isn't to just give people a break on loans it's to fundamentally change the system. make community college tuition free so people who are having to pay full sticker will get a break there. and make tuition at state schools free for in state students.

    there is a way to make higher education affordable but it isn't by paying for people's out of state tuition, grad school or trips to cabo at 8% interest
     
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  46. wes tegg

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    Shot, chaser.
     
  47. Jesse Palmer

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    Medical school loans are a bitch. 45 grand a year (one of the cheaper schools in the country) to teach yourself and take years off your life. Not to mention living expenses and flying out to interview at different residencies and shit. Gonna be paying off these motherfuckers for 25 years. Just got mad anxiety even typing this.
     
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  48. Rusty Shackleford

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    Raise your hand if you spent your student loan money on things other than the necessities of school. I know I did.

    Forgiveness negatively effects the decision making process that go into deciding to take these loans, how much money to take and what type of degrees to persue doe that cost. How much the universities think they can charge for their product is also affected.

    If you want to stimulate the economy give people a check. Unless there is some benefit to the student loan system don’t further break the system.
     
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  49. Gallant Knight

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    going to be really fun when you start fucking a nurse and have to pay off those loans + child support + spousal support + $1,800 s class car lease
     
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  50. Lyrtch

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    all the discussions of other fixes are all fine and dandy

    but the reason this is a current topic of discussion is because biden can unilaterally do this while the rest require legislation that won't happen with an obstructionist gop entering it's second decade

    so sure we need to fix all those other things, but if we can't do that we should do the things we can