Some initial thoughts on the declaration by the Biden administration regarding student loan forgiveness:
I think this may be cover for a collapsing college system in terms of enrollment and students not paying back their loans. Many people obtained degrees that were not useful in the workplace (I don't think college degrees should be a requirement of any job, expect for maybe a couple). Pastors/priests should have degrees to show that they adhere to the faith if you will.
This reminds me of Obamacare in some ways with forcing everyone to pay for something that is collapsing. I think that Obamacare was cover for a collapsing hospital system, and the COVID response may have been the same thing.
A lot of training should be done on the job site. As far as I know, engineers learned engineering at the workplace not too long ago and not at schools. The colleges and the universities are an entrenched lobbying group and want to have the guaranteed federal money to justify high tuition. The federal government should have never been involved in this business.
This is also a tax in disguise. If you think about it, many of these loans were never going to be paid. So, the forgiveness will be taxed next year as income as far as I know. So, the borrower will have to pay tax money on this (an unexpected surprise for many).
Lastly, I don't think the executive branch has the unilateral authority to grant this forgiveness. It should be struck down by the courts in a sane world, but I don't think that sane world has existed for a long time.
P.S. Colleges like Hillsdale College that don't take any federal funding may be the future of college in the United States. I would personally recommend a college that does not take federal funding to avoid the evils of DIE policies and other initiatives.
Expropriation by decree. No vote, nothing. Naked banditry.
We’ve entered a new era in government theft in America. They used to at least make the effort to attach this unpopular bullshit to a massive spending bill so that conservatives had to ostensibly vote against popular clauses in order to shoot down the pork. Now a leftist president just forces massive spending (to benefit almost exclusively his voters) with the flick of a pen.
In the "everyone loots the Treasury" stage of empire the only rational response is to make sure you get your share (and/or prevent the Treasury from taking what's yours: money is fungible so there's a certain equivalence between the two) and use it to set yourself up for when the thing can no longer sustain itself.