Final Vote—All States, Progress in counting

[Backintheday544]

12 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

I’ve got more since you asked...

-Lowering Medicare age to 60

-Stopping oil extraction on public lands with Wildlife like Alaska

-Making it easier to repay student loan debt that are destroying families.

-Stop giving the Saudi’s financial support in their war with Yemen.

-Increase taxes on those making 400k a year and raising corporate tax rate to help pay for increased social safety net programs.

-Increased Wall Street regulations to avoid a 2008 type crash.

-Stop increasing our bloated military budget.

-Increase police funding for training including mental health training.

-Help provide funding to retrain workers who’s jobs are gone likely forever (coal miners, retail workers)

 

I have more though as that was an excellent retort.

Those are all great!

[Doc Brown]

6 minutes ago, Backintheday544 said:

Those are all great!

Democrats need to focus on policy more and culture wars less to win at a much higher rate.  Getting Trump out is hopefully a first step.

Edited November 7, 2020 by Doc Brown

[Q-baby!]

8 minutes ago, Big Gun said:

You're so weak its comical.

Easy, little pee pee. 

[Chef Jim]

10 minutes ago, Backintheday544 said:

Those are all great!

How would you make or easier to repay student loan debt?  

[Doc Brown]

7 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

How would you make or easier to repay student loan debt?  

One example

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2020/10/01/bidens-income-based-student-loan-plan-would-dramatically-lower-payments-for-some---heres-how/?sh=66cc95be6354

[Q-baby!]

13 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

How would you make or easier to repay student loan debt?  

Get a job and be good at it so you make money. Pay your bills. 

[Chef Jim]

5 minutes ago, Doc Brown said:

One example

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2020/10/01/bidens-income-based-student-loan-plan-would-dramatically-lower-payments-for-some---heres-how/?sh=66cc95be6354

Why not work on making college more affordable than making me pay for someone else’s kids college?  

[Backintheday544]

14 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

How would you make or easier to repay student loan debt?  

start off with eliminating public student loans. Pretend it’s a tax cut and that the addition GDP growth will make it pay for itself.

[Chef Jim]

Just now, Q-baby! said:

Get a job and be good at it so you make money. Pay your bills. 

Who hijacked your account? 

[Q-baby!]

Just now, Chef Jim said:

Who hijacked your account? 

Nobody. Does that mean you agree with me? 😂

[Chef Jim]

Just now, Q-baby! said:

Nobody. Does that mean you agree with me? 😂

 

It’s not that I agree with you as much as you didn’t post something that wasn’t trollish for a change.  

[Q-baby!]

3 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

 

It’s not that I agree with you as much as you didn’t post something that wasn’t trollish for a change.  

So, by trollish, you mean against your beliefs. 
 

(I didn’t post something the wasn’t trollish? WTF does that even mean?)

Edited November 7, 2020 by Q-baby!

[Backintheday544]

3 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

Why not work on making college more affordable than making me pay for someone else’s kids college?  

You could do both at the same time. 

This is the most republican thing ever.

 

1) When they give tax cuts to the wealthy, and Republicans are asked how will we pay for that? They say tax cuts will increase GDP which will increase tax revenues. Here, more people having money each month will increase GDP and pay for itself.

 

2) Studies have shown student loans hinder people from starting families. GOP loves families, support it.

 

3) GOP loves babies being born (granted they don’t care what happens after) but people having the additional funds each month can afford to have a baby!

[Doc Brown]

29 minutes ago, Chef Jim said:

Why not work on making college more affordable than making me pay for someone else’s kids college?  

I'd rather have my money go to making college more affordable than more tanks but helping relieve college debt would lead to a more vibrant economy in the long run as people have more money to spend.

[New Improved DC Tom]

1 hour ago, Q-baby! said:

So, by trollish, you mean against your beliefs. 
 

(I didn’t post something the wasn’t trollish? WTF does that even mean?)

 

Most of what you post is empty trolling.  You exist only to get under people's skin.  

 

When you don't, you're actually a pretty decent poster.  But that's rare.

[Q-baby!]

5 minutes ago, New Improved DC Tom said:

 

Most of what you post is empty trolling.  You exist only to get under people's skin.  

 

When you don't, you're actually a pretty decent poster.  But that's rare.

BS! I have yet to post anything even remotely close to being decent! 

[BullBuchanan]

4 hours ago, Chef Jim said:

Why not work on making college more affordable than making me pay for someone else’s kids college?  

The same reason I pay for your home / child tax subsidies. It makes the economy stronger.

Edited November 7, 2020 by BullBuchanan

[SoTier]

10 hours ago, Chef Jim said:

How would you make or easier to repay student loan debt?  

 

Stop guaranteeing student loans to students at for-profit colleges and trade schools that are scams.   These schools need to go through a periodic accreditation process by an outside organization just like non-profit colleges and universities go through.

 

Allowing borrowers who've been paying their loans back for several years to be able to discharge them through bankruptcy if they suffer economic hardship for other causes like lost jobs or business failures, medical problems, etc.

 

There's a program I believe that allows forgiveness of student loans based on public service.  Right now, it's kind of hard to become eligible for that program.  Expand it and make more job types/professions eligible.  For example, I think that medical professionals from nurses to doctors working in public health ought to be eligible for 50-70% of their loans forgiven based on how many years they work in the field of public health.

 

 

[Backintheday544]

21 minutes ago, SoTier said:

 

Stop guaranteeing student loans to students at for-profit colleges and trade schools that are scams.   These schools need to go through a periodic accreditation process by an outside organization just like non-profit colleges and universities go through.

 

Allowing borrowers who've been paying their loans back for several years to be able to discharge them through bankruptcy if they suffer economic hardship for other causes like lost jobs or business failures, medical problems, etc.

 

There's a program I believe that allows forgiveness of student loans based on public service.  Right now, it's kind of hard to become eligible for that program.  Expand it and make more job types/professions eligible.  For example, I think that medical professionals from nurses to doctors working in public health ought to be eligible for 50-70% of their loans forgiven based on how many years they work in the field of public health.

 

 

The public student loan forgiveness is for people who work 10 years in a federal or state government job or for a 501(c)(3). There’s a couple others jobs in there as well but not popular ones. 

Amounts under this program that are forgiven are not taxed.
 

There is currently a 20 or 25 year loan forgiveness for everyone on Federal student loan debt. Amounts under this program, the forgiveness is taxed.

[Coach Tuesday]

There is no good principled reason to exempt student loans from bankruptcy forgiveness.  It’s a gift given to lenders/servicers.  The argument that they wouldn’t underwrite the loans without that exemption is a bad one - maybe they shouldn’t be underwriting those loans, then, and it might force private colleges to compete on price.