You all do realize that the federal government gives an American Opportunity credit for anyone that goes to college and qualifies. This is $2,500.00 per year for four years. It has been there for a long time and nobody is complaining. $10,000 for most college kids.

Lets talk about the child tax credit. It is $2,000.00 a year for the first 16 years of a childs life. Have three kids and you get almost $100,000.00 in tax credits for them.

Stimulus money, each adult received $3,200.00. How many sent it back? The Amish did.

It is hypocritical to complain about the government giving free handouts to someone else and taking free handouts for yourself.

Was funding going away because the borrowers were not paying back their loans?

Wee bit of difference between congress approving that stuff (right or wrong, at least it went through the proper channels) and sniffy doing it with a stroke of his pen.

Well stated.

The difference between covid money and student loans is people signed a contract to pay it back. If everyone had to pay it back most would not have taken it. I can't believe someone knows every Amish in the US.

Do you think this would have happened if it weren't for an election coming up?

Listed here are critics of the student loan forgiveness.

I wonder why they weren’t critical of the PPP program. LOL

Those Republicans are 100 percent correct to be critical of the student loan giveaway. And they should also be 100 percent against the PPP program. Welfare takes many forms and should all be eliminated.

There is a big difference in taking Covid payments or PPP loans compared to student loan forgiveness. The government told you you couldn’t go to work or you had to close your business so I have no problem with people taking it. No body forced anyone to go to college. Another weak communist argument.

That may have been the intention, but I know for a fact there were people around here that got the PPP "loans" that were not affected by covid and would have been just fine without it. It was completely asinine to shut down the economy like they did in the first place, but that's another story completely.

Fair enough. I had to take a loan out for a vehicle which enabled me to earn a living. If people who take a loan to go to school to further their ability to make a living get a $10,000 loan payment, where's my $10,000 payment on my car loan?
As far as the $3200, .gov has been stealing my money since 1986 so I'm not going to complain when I get some of my money back. Personally though I would have preferred a permanent tax cut instead of $3200 of printed money.

You post this as no dems took the pay out. You do realize that to get the payment you had to have employees? It was given to "businesses", with employees, That couldnt work, because of govt mandated shut downs. Ssssslllllooooowwwww enogh for you?

Diggerman,

Maybe no Democrats listed because they weren’t critical of the student loan forgiveness loan program. Understand or should i go slower for you!!!!!

Democrats are never critical of socialist programs that reward people for not doing the right thing.

Wrong! My son puts cable in the ground. Nobody missed a day of work. Company took out over 1 million in PPP loans. You should check out all the farmers, insurance agents, etc... that didn't miss a day of work and the amount of money they received in PPP loans. It' simple to find and will make you sick.

Your post was designed in a way to make a persons think that only Republicans took the loan, maybe you didnt get the connection when you copied and pasted this from pravda.
Are some of you guys just that dense or do you really not see the difference? I swear that if cnn told you all trees have green leaves you would go to your grave defending them, even when Fall rolled around.

I think you are confused about something, but it's not your fault the entire PPP has been purposely clouded. There are PPP Loans, and then there was a free $20k that from the beginning never had to be paid back, but you absolutely had to have employees. There were some PPP loans that were forgiven and never had to be paid back, but the program was poorly administrated and you could lie to gain eligibility. The entire purpose was that because COVID disrupted a lot of stuff, this was a way to keep paychecks going to the worker in order to keep money spending in the economy.

It's a very weak argument to me personally to try to compare the Paycheck Protection Program(PPP) which Congress(the Legislative Branch) passed and an executive order that POTUS is trying to use COVID as the reason for the cancellation. The outrage is taxation without representation, not that it's helping other fellow citizens. POTUS does this EA knowing that it will not pass lawsuits, because of the weak and poor authority that was used to try to pass this. Republicans are going to oppose this rightfully because Congress didn't pass it, Democrats are saying "it's good it's good" knowing that they didn't have to vote on it either. Congress passed laws in 2007 that created the PSFL, and enabled the monthly payment program to go down to 0 if your income is low enough and should be the ones spearheading this, but they wont because they know how the American People feel.

If you think I support the way this student loan forgiveness was passed or that I'm a democrat, you are confused. Also, I guess my neighbor who is a farmer, that brags about his PPP loans must be lying to me?

https://www.federalpay.org/paycheck-protection-program

Literally thousands of people claiming ONE employee!

If I'm wrong, I guess I'll eat crow.

If you dont think farmers got hit financially from the shut downs you are not right. Beef prices went at the farm because of plant shut downs, yet went up at store level. Dairy farmers dumped milk because of plant shut downs. Any Farmer worth his salt will tell you he would have made more money and preferred business as usual to all the covid checks.
Inflation brought on by all this CR has doubled the operating costs to all farmers.

@Bigdog, I didn't think any of that, I was simply pointing out that the original criteria was not clearcut like we understand it today. Whether or not a farmer brags about PPP loans doesn't negate what anybody said, PPP was designed to keep paychecks going to workers to keep spending in the economy. "Paycheck Protection Program". There just is no reason to bring up PPP as a comparison, because it was passed by Congress, not through some executive action so it's not apples to apples, not even apples to oranges, it's like blueberries to elephants.