Navy, I wrote my law school third-year paper on why the third year of law school should be optional. The two big points is that it hurts lawyers by making them pay $30k in tuition rather than earn maybe 75k in salary, and hurts the middle class by driving up the price of legal services.
Got a B+.
I don’t think mass loan repayment is a particularly good policy for the reasons everybody has mentioned.
It is less of a giveaway to the rich than PPP, but the biggest student loan debts are generally doctors, dentists, and lawyers. And a lot of the rest, middle class and poor people with large debts, aren’t actually paying them back. They either defaulted, are on a forgiveness plan, or have income based repayment of 200 or less a month.
So grading loan forgiveness on a curve, it isn’t that bad an economic policy. The best economic policy is to buy the top copyrights and patents and release them into the public domain, and to cut incomes taxes and replace them with Georgist land value taxes and Pigovian pollution taxes. Won’t happen of course!
