Biden isn't serious about forgiving student debt. 'Means-testing' is a con | David Sirota

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Now sure, billionaires are eligible for social security and Medicare, and their kids are eligible for free K-12 education - and that aristocracy doesn't need that help.
55% : Universal programs like social security and Medicare were what we once defined as "society" or "civilization".
52% : Desperate for a contrast point with his rivals, the son of a private university professor aired ads blasting the idea of tuition-free college because he said it would make higher education "free even for the kids of millionaires."
50% : It is a concept eroding national unity and being carried forward by wealthy pundits and a Democratic party that has discarded the lessons of its own universalist triumphs like social security, Medicare and the GI Bill.
50% : In trial-ballooning the college debt relief proposal, the president is boosting the media-manufactured fiction that real, universal college debt relief would mostly help rich Ivy League kids - even though data from the Roosevelt Institute conclusively proves that canceling student debt "would provide more benefits to those with fewer economic resources and could play a critical role in addressing the racial wealth gap and building the Black middle class".
45% : Worse, it was disguised as a brave stand against the oligarchs bankrolling Buttigieg's campaign, even though it actually wasn't - almost no rich scions would benefit from free college.
45% : As the report points out: "People from wealthy backgrounds (and their parents) rarely use student loans to pay for college."

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