Under Progressive pressure, Biden ponders canceling $50,000 in student loans.

Rogue Executive Actions 

Biden is already bending to the wishes of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders to want to forgive student loans. 

On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Biden ‘Considering’ Forgiving $50,000 in Student Loan Debt via Executive Action.

Schumer held a press conference alongside Democratic Congressmen-elect Ritchie Torres, Mondaire Jones and Jamaal Bowman of New York, during which the group announced they have “come to the conclusion” that Biden can “forgive $50,000 of debt the first day he becomes president.”

“You don’t need Congress, all you need is the flick of a pen and President-elect Biden — then President Biden — can make this happen,” Schumer said.

Asked if Biden will have the executive authority to forgive the debt, the New York Senator said the president-elect is researching that and “I believe when he does his research, he will find that he does.”

Congress, Who Needs It?

I believe we have seen enough rogue executive actions of dubious legality.

Even if legal, this is a terrible idea. It mainly benefits middle-class whites and unfairly so. 

We can’t give money to people at the bottom who have lost their jobs, possibly permanently, due to government decree. But hey, let's  forgive $50,000 in debt to the upwardly mobile.

Less Education for Your Buck

The above chart is from US College Tuition & Fees vs. Overall Inflation.

Please note the acceleration in 2005. What happened?

The cost of education escalated madly when Bush passed the bankruptcy reform act of 2005 making student debt not dischargeable in bankruptcy. 

Flashback 2005

On April 15, 2005, I penned The Deflation Guarantee Act of 2005.

Today Congress passed the “The Deflation Guarantee Act of 2005” currently known as the “Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005”.

Twenty years from now economists are going to be studying legislation from this Congress and signed by this administration and be wondering: “What the * were they thinking?”.

Anytime this administration passes a law with the “protection” in it, assume it will do just the opposite.

This was a bill written by loan sharks, and bought via payoffs (otherwise known as campaign contributions) to those voting for this bill. It has NOTHING to do with “Consumer Protection”.

I believe this will backfire in many ways, and not all of them are fully understood yet.