[pyrophane]

I'd like to see student loan debt forgiven along with implementing a plan to address the cause of this ballooning debt. Unfortunately, this is the United States, and federal legislation on just about anything is currently impossible if there is any opportunity at all to turn it into a divisive issue. Even if the democrats managed to build a majority that would allow them to pass whatever they wanted, tackling a problem like this in a forward-looking way seems beyond them.

[nonethewiser]

> I'd like to see student loan debt forgiven along with implementing a plan to address the cause of this ballooning debt.

Forgiving debt incentivizes debt though. It's impossible to address the root cause and forgive the debt.

[pyrophane]

That's why I'm suggesting that forgiveness of any existing debt should be linked to a big policy change.

For example, make student load debt dischargeable in bankruptcy like any other debt, and at the same time impose tuition caps at state universities to make them affordable again.

[jaywalk]

Every problem that gets solved is one less thing to campaign on. And since we don't hold our politicians accountable, they can just campaign on the same things over and over and never do anything about them.