Your headline regarding President Biden’s student debt relief could have been positive (“Student loan foregiveness a ‘Band-Aid’ for big wound, say locals in debt,” The Herald Aug. 26).
Rather than a headline about the 22 million whose student loans were forgiven in full, the headline focused on someone who has $78,000 of debt. But reading further, even he is happy to get 25 percent of his loan student loans forgiven which hopefully will help him “finally be able to buy a house.”
Republican legislators have been vocal about decrying giving taxpayer money to forgive debt. Heather Cox Richardson in her daily email documents multiple legislators who benefited from PPP loan forgiveness, all of course from taxpayers. Among them is Vern Buchanan, R-Fla., said: “Biden’s reckless, unilateral student loan giveaway is unfair to the 87 percent of Americans who played by the rules.” Buchanan had more than $2.3 million in PPP loans forgiven. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., said: “Asking plumbers and carpenters to pay off the loans of Wall Street advisers and lawyers isn’t just unfair. It’s also bad policy.” Kelly had $987,237 in PPP loans forgiven. Mark Mullin, R-Okla., had more than $1.4 million in PPP loans forgiven. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., had more than $1 million in PPP forgiven. Matt Gaetz, R-, Fla., had $482,321 forgiven. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., had $183,504 forgiven.
Hans Dankers
Monroe
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