42% of Americans want Trump to forgive their student loan debt

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Four in ten Americans believe that President Trump’s administration should forgive all federal student debt in order to help stimulate the economy, a new survey revealed Friday.

According to MoneyTips.com Opens a New Window. , nearly 42% agree or strongly agree that the government should wipe out all debt, while less than 37% disagree or strongly disagree with that move, and the remaining 21% neither agreed nor disagreed.

“Drilling into the data, we found millennials (18-29) were especially passionate about student loan debt forgiveness, strongly agreeing with the idea nearly twice as much as those 50 and older. Even if older people are still paying off their loans, younger people paid more and borrowed more for higher education,” Michael Dubrow, MoneyTips co-founder, tells FOX Business.

Additionally, the survey of 466 Americans found that women (around 47%) were more in favor of loan forgiveness than men, at around 37%.

“This is a terrible idea because all students who have paid for their loans in full will be in an uproar. All of a sudden, others who came after them will benefit immensely to their tremendous sorrow,” Reecy Aresty, founder of Payless for College, tells FOX Business. “Also, what about parent loans? Will they also be forgiven? There’s more parent loans than there are student loans.”

Christopher Krell, CFP and partner at Cassaday & Company in McLean, Va., agrees, saying in order to forgive 25% of the current $1.3 trillion dollars of the student loan debt in the U.S., it would cost almost $330 billion—which is something that the government simply can’t afford—let alone banks.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/07/07/42-americans-want-trump-to-forgive-their-student-loan-debt.ht.html

These folks need to suck it up and realize they are the ones who decided to go into debt.

And they also need to explain why the rest of Americans are responsible for the personal choices of these people.

[Cyber Liberty]

I want whoever it is that's wasting my data charges to stop texting me, offering to help me pay off my student loans.  I haven't been a student for over 35 years, and I paid for it myself.

[Oceander]

Much simpler is to remove the limitations on discharging student loan debt in bankruptcy.  The bankruptcy courts are very good at dealing with overburdened debtors and overreaching creditors. 

[catfish1957]

These folks need to suck it up and realize they are the ones who decided to go into debt.

And they also need to explain why the rest of Americans are responsible for the personal choices of these people.

That 42% pretty much defines the entitlement class in this country who thinks the less fortunate should have a lifetime supply of the left hind teat of Fedzilla.

I've paid $1.3M in Fed Taxes in my life  Enough is enough.   That is also why I refuse to support any charities anymore.