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by omegaworks 1515 days ago
> Then, tax 100% of the distribution for people without student loan balances.

No one is proposing this.

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Proposals to pay off student loan debt are the equivalent of this, as I have expanded on at length in the rest of my comment.
They are not, though. You wrote your comment as though every proposal is necessarily a tax on everyone that does not have student loans.

This is an entirely made up claim. A hypothetical strawman useful to only those that seek to victimize themselves when this topic comes up. Student debt is a contractual arrangement between the government and the borrower. It can simply be ended. The government has the power to do that without imposing a tax on everyone else.