Bernie Sanders will use a tax on Wall Street speculators to wipe out $1.6 trillion in US student debt

i don’t think that makes a lot of sense.

okay, so you cancel rich people’s college debt. but then you tax them bringing their net gain back down towards zero.

you use that money - which you are getting from the over their entire lifetime, not just the blip event of college - to cancel everyone elses debt.

so people on the low end of wealth get freedom from debt and no tax ( net win ), and people on the high end of wealth get freedom from debt and a tax ( net zero. )

i don’t get the rhetoric that a tax on wealthy people will somehow line their pocket books.

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