[miami_fan]

I wonder how much of the student loan forgiveness backlash is based less on the idea of everyone had to pay off their debts and more on who might be getting their student loan debts forgiven. I have seen a lot of teachers have their debt forgiven. I have yet to hear anyone else who has student loans complain about that sort of program like the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. Almost all see those programs as good things and worthy of their tax dollars even though those non teachers might be still paying of their own student loans or had already paid theirs off. Teachers it seems have earned the right to have their debts forgiven.

Almost all of the people who are against these programs I have talked with instantly can come up with the name of a guy or gal from their college days who received the full complement of financial aid and used the extra money to party or go on vacations etc. People want the person who used their extra student loan money to get the ocean side view during Spring Break to pay back every dime and they don't want their tax dollars to forgive one penny.

From what I can tell, whether you believe in forgiving the loans or not comes down to whether you believe you are forgiving more of the loans of the first category or the second group.