The Challenge: President Biden’s new program to cancel $39 billion in student-loan debt for 800,000 debtors.
In an try to placate the left wing of his occasion and purchase votes, President Biden is making an attempt to cancel billions of {dollars} of student-loan debt, although the Supreme Court docket has dominated that he lacks the ability to take action (“Treating court docket with contempt,” Editorial, July 18).
Such a cancellation is not going to solely gasoline inflation but in addition switch the money owed of middle-class debtors to working-class Individuals who selected to not attend faculty.
Why ought to a bartender or waitress pay the law-school debt of another person? Why ought to an individual who selected to serve our nation within the army need to pay the faculty debt of somebody who selected to not serve?
This debt switch is nothing greater than a shameless bid to purchase votes.
Each I and my son paid off our scholar loans. I’ve no need to repay Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s scholar loans.
Kenneth Fitzgerald
Hicksville
Go away it to sneaky Joe to discover a means across the Supreme Court docket’s choice concerning the student-loan giveaway.
How can a sitting president ignore a Supreme Court docket choice?
Why aren’t the American folks — or not less than the residents who didn’t vote for this man — up in arms about this?
What number of part-time jobs am I going to need to tackle to assist pay for these giveaways?
I took out a school mortgage in 1973. Can I get a refund or reimbursement? I doubt it.
Biden is utilizing these strategies to purchase votes, and we needs to be outraged. If former President Donald Trump tried to provoke the identical factor, the Democrats could be throughout him.
Former President Barack Obama was appropriate when he reportedly warned: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s capacity to f - - okay issues up.” He continues to take action. Disgusting.
Donna Skjeveland
Holbrook
There isn’t a forgiveness. There isn’t a cancellation. There’s solely a switch of debt from one individual to a different.
So why does everybody proceed to name it “forgiveness” and “cancellation”?
A. Bianco
Manhasset
Biden has spit within the eyes of the Supreme Court docket justices who dominated that his self-proclaimed edict that may forgive tuition prices from hundreds of thousands of scholars was unconstitutional.
Multibillion-dollar choices like that, which impression hundreds of thousands of debtors, can solely be made by Congress and never unilaterally by a president. That may be a honest and correct studying of the Structure.
No sooner did the court docket make its decree than Biden determined to supersede the court docket with a purpose to reward his constituents by asserting a unique payoff scheme to forgive billions in tuition obligations.
This order is not any extra worthy than was the primary. It, too, will rapidly be discovered unconstitutional.
America is then left with a president with diminished schools who could strive time and again till somebody tells him to cease. Not not like coaching a canine who defecates in each nook of 1’s house.
Wealthy Klitzberg
Boca Raton, Fla.
It’s not honest that taxpayers are going to need to pay for Biden’s student-loan forgiveness program.
These of us who labored arduous to repay our loans will now need to pay for others with our taxes. If that’s the case, then all of us who’ve paid again their loans needs to be reimbursed.
He has no respect for the Supreme Court docket’s choice on this case.
This is rather like the reparations applications that may require taxpayers to pay for one thing that they had nothing to do with. When does it cease?
Stephen Colasacco
The Bronx
Has America turn into a banana republic? Biden, now a dictator, has no worry of any penalties or accountability.
He has put himself above the legislation.
His $36 billion student-debt aid reveals contempt of Congress, the Supreme Court docket and the American folks.
This lawlessness have to be condemned by our elected officers and the media. Or are they a part of the issue?
Robert Neglia
The Bronx
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