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[–] damnedfurry@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

By this logic all public services are regressive, since everyone pays into them and there will always be someone poorer who pays in and someone wealthier who benefits.

This is not a valid analogy, unless those public services went only to the wealthiest people. Student loan forgiveness goes only to college students (obviously), who are statistically the wealthiest among us, over their lifetimes.

It's like if there was a financial government benefit/incentive to buying a second house. Only the wealthiest among us are buying more than one house, so that would be an obviously-regressive policy.

The same money that would forgive the loans of college students, instead being used as grants for people who, for financial reasons, never went to college, would be put to much better use.