“480 Minutes” - The Dog Ate His ‘Standing Order’
The congressional Republicans complaining that it’s not “fair” for the government to help people by forgiving their student loan debt all thought a $2 trillion tax cut which overwhelmingly benefited the rich & giant profitable corporations, doubled the deficit, & will raise taxes on the majority of Americans this decade was “fair.” I don’t think they know what the word “fair” means.
Key points, compared:
2017 Trump/GOP Tax Scam
- more than half of middle-class families in America get a tax increase
- 83% of the tax cuts go to the top 1% of Americans
- every single income group below $75,000 will see a tax increase by 2027
2022 Biden/Democratic Student Loan Forgiveness
- benefits households making $125,000 a year & below
- 90% of eligible beneficiaries make under $75,000
- improves the financial security of tens of millions
Which seems more “fair” to you?
One of the main reasons college education is so insanely expensive today is that Ronald Reagan & his GOP were afraid that the expansion of higher education thanks to things like The GI Bill would create the grave danger of the “educated proletariat” so they starved public coffers forcing states to charge for public education putting it out of reach of many.
Actual Reagan quotes: “They are spoiled and don't deserve the education they are getting” and “[the state] should not subsidize intellectual curiosity.” And there you have it — the beginnings of the right’s longstanding war on higher education in a nutshell. They know that those who know about the world are more likely see through “pull yourself up by your boot straps” to the base cruelty & systemic inequities such slogans mask than the Fox-lobotomized.
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