The PPP was an attempt to recover from a government fuckup. Those businesses only needed loans because they were needlessly shut down.

Student loan debt is because of choices that those students made. If any of them were paying tuition for classes they weren't able to attend because of the government's COVID fuckery, then forgiving just that portion and only that portion would be equivalent. That would have actually been more reasonable than the PPP IMHO.

There is a difference in bailing out people where you're the entity responsible and bailing out people where they are the entity responsible. Also, the question is deliberately conflating loans paid out for one group and loans defaulted for the other. They need to fix that before it's even worth addressing. Defaulted PPP loans shouldn't be forgiven either.

The PPP was an attempt to recover from a government fuckup. Those businesses only needed loans because they were needlessly shut down.

Student loan debt is because of choices that those students made. If any of them were paying tuition for classes they weren't able to attend because of the government's COVID fuckery, then forgiving just that portion and only that portion would be equivalent. That would have actually been more reasonable than the PPP IMHO.

There is a difference in bailing out people where you're the entity responsible and bailing out people where they are the entity responsible.