Author: nickcook

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Joe Stapp Alumni – Dawsonville, Ga.”][vc_column_text]“It is immoral to force another person, especially the poor, to pay for another person’s debt without their consent.  Universities with raise tuition that is already too high.  I paid off my wife’s student loans, my Baylor loans and plan to help my 2 kids with theirs as well.  This is called being personally responsible.  I’m a psychologist and work with people who live at or slightly above the poverty line – $30,000-$40,000 per year.  They are rightly upset that they are paying for school loans for a student who earns up to $250,000.”…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Teddy Groce Freshman – Ft. Worth, Texas”][vc_column_text]“While the idea of debt forgiveness has a good heart, helping out struggling college students who cannot repay debt because of various circumstances, it is not something I see that our federal government should regulate. When our debts and other actions are regulated and acted upon by the government, it takes away the ability for us to improve and try to get out of the situation ourselves. If we cannot find a way for ourselves to stand up to the challenges we have created, then we cannot grow as individuals that keep America,…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Bryce Ricker Sophomore – Bristol, Wis.”][vc_column_text]“As the Center for Law and Social Policy has shown, student loan debt is a national crisis which costs the American citizen $1.7 trillion. The price of education has steadily continued to climb over the years while wages have remained stagnant. Research has shown that cancelation would boost the GDP by billions of dollars and add up to 1.5 million new jobs. Doing so would also advance the cause for equality as women hold two thirds of outstanding debt and racial minorities hold higher levels of debt on average despite lower college attendance rates.”…