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    Thursday, May 02, 2024

    Buying votes with student loan money

    President Biden again proposes taxpayers to flip the bill for current students loans. (“Biden promotes 'life changing' student loan relief as he rallies young voters in Wisconsin.”) Although I will agree that the interest rates on these students' loans are way too high and this relief is geared towards those interests, the main question for these high loans is: Why are college tuitions so high?

    Upon checking into reasons for this problem, I found that the higher education workers contribute substantial amounts of money to presidential campaigning. Both parties are at fault here, for leaning towards avoiding the possible investigation of this gouging in college tuition by the Biden campaign especially. He receives five times more contributions than Trump.

    These college workers have given Biden $4.9 million towards his campaign. No wonder he does not care about the actual problem. This problem of too-high tuitions will never go away because the underlying problem will never be resolved. These workers pay for his “look the other way”approach and we, the taxpapers, have to pay the bill. Biden's followers also choose to “look the other way” when he does these tactics to buy votes from the students and graduates. As usual, there is something rotten in D.C.

    Bernice Oulundsen

    Oakdale

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