Is there a case for canceling student loan debt?

Acton Unwind - A podcast by Acton Institute - Mondays

This week, Eric Kohn, John Pinheiro, and Dylan Pahman discuss every angle of the executive order from President Joe Biden granting up to $20,000 of student-loan-debt forgiveness to qualifying individuals. Is there a solid legal case for doing this? Can one argue persuasively that transferring debts from those who incurred them to those who did not—namely, the American taxpayers—is in any way just? Does it make sense to take this action without addressing the deeper problems in the student loan and higher education system, which debt-relief advocates themselves portray as predatory? How do we address the cultural problems that exist in the system—namely, the increased expectation that everyone should go to college? Student Loan Debt Statistics: 2022 | NerdWallet Untangling the college loan crisis | Anne Rathbone Bradley, Religion & Liberty Is There a Christian Case for Biden’s Debt Relief Plan? | David French, The Dispatch Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America | Daniel J. Flynn Millennials and Marriage | Rachel Lu, Public Discourse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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