Should Taxpayers Pay For Student Loan Debts?

Mark Spearman
10 min readJun 2, 2024
Chase the dollar.
College graduates chase that dollar and ask the rest of the country to take on their burden.

I’m writing this the day after Donald Trump’s “Hush Money” “trial” finished with the a jury who swore they had no strong feelings about Donald Trump(established liars, everyone has strong feelings about Trump). The jury found him guilty on 34 counts of falsification of business records. My prediction is that the country is in severe trouble as retribution for this looms. I really don’t know much in the grand scheme of things. In politics most over-estimate our true knowledge of the subject matter.

Other than the jury lying about not having strong feelings about Donald Trump, there is one other thing that I am sure of. That is that I am not changing anyone’s mind. The only mind I can change is my own, so I set out to do that with the matter of student loan debt.

Here is what I found out.

My Immediate Thoughts On Student Loan Debt Forgiveness?

The knee-jerk reaction is expected. Most who owe are for it. Most who do not owe are against it. Well, those who realize that they will repay those loans, they’re against it.

This is American politics though! How can we spin this? If you don’t owe, you’re going to have increased taxes to pay for it, but you’ll get that back in a stronger economy due to all that debtor money going to “the…

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Mark Spearman

I hail from Central Ohio. I have a diverse background and enjoy writing to the fullest. See more at http://markspearman.com