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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on October 29, 2018, 03:46:08 pm

Title: Democrats’ plan to solve student loan crisis is to offer ‘ATM that dispenses taxpayer dollars’: op-
Post by: rangerrebew on October 29, 2018, 03:46:08 pm

 Democrats’ plan to solve student loan crisis is to offer ‘ATM that dispenses taxpayer dollars’: op-ed
October 26, 2018


Student debt is undoubtedly a problem facing higher education, but an op-ed at National Review argues that the Democrats’ plan to fix it would let borrowers who can afford to repay the loans off the hook, and stick taxpayers with the bill.

Jason Delisle and Cody Christensen, two researchers at the American Enterprise Institute, analyze the “Aim Higher Act,” which seems “minor and harmless” at first and could be mistaken for “a benefit restricted to low-income borrowers.”

However, this is not the case, they write:

https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/democrats-plan-to-solve-student-loan-crisis-is-to-offer-atm-that-dispenses-taxpayer-dollars-op-ed/ (https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/democrats-plan-to-solve-student-loan-crisis-is-to-offer-atm-that-dispenses-taxpayer-dollars-op-ed/)