Because subsidizing the top 25% of earners in the country with the taxes of everyone else seems fundamentally unjust, especially when they voluntarily took on the debt.
> Because subsidizing the top 25% of earners in the counttry (...)
I don't think your assertion adds up, or stands any scrutiny. Not all higher education degrees lead to high-paying careers, and definitely those who struggle to pay off their student loans after over a decade of payments will clearly not represent people who are well off.
Also, it sounds highly hypocritical to put up such a emotionally-based strawman for student loans when tax breaks and tax benefits for mega-corporations and and the very wealthy don't even come up as causes for concerns,in spite of eclipsing anything related to student loans. It's as if this student loan obsession is manufactured rage.
But that as much is clear, given your concern is that canceling student loans might convince some people to vote for a candidate,as if that's your actual problem.
Concern about the justness of an action the government is taking is not an "emotional strawman"; if you cannot differentiate claims of justice from feelings, you probably should avoid voting.
>But that as much is clear, given your concern is that canceling student loans might convince some people to vote for a candidate, as if that's your actual problem.
This is an absolute mindread, isn't accurate, and comes off as childish.
The rest of your comment is useless whataboutism - no one was talking about "tax breaks for mega corporations and the very wealthy". You have no idea if my position on those things is consistent or hypocritical because I haven't said a word about either.
> Concern about the justness of an action the government is taking is not an "emotional strawman";
It is clearly a very obvious emotional strawman. It's not about fairness otherwise your complain would be about how all student debt should be forgiven. It is not. Also, if you cared about fairness in how governments treated people it would be expected that you'd care about citizens having to carry government-mandated debt for decades while struggling to pay it off. But apparently that concern never crossed your mind.
OP's complain was very explicitly how this policy could lead people to vote for a candidate. There is no way around it. This blend of criticism is not about fairness, the economy, the role of government, even education policies. It's about political pettiness following a logic of cutting the nose to spite the face. It's the same logic that led a political party to throw out the window the best border deal in generations just because a prospective candidate was concerned it would make the incumbent look good.