The Issue: President Biden’s new program to cancel $39 billion in student-loan debt for 800,000 borrowers.
In an attempt to placate the left wing of his party and buy votes, President Biden is attempting to cancel billions of dollars of student-loan debt, even though the Supreme Court has ruled that he lacks the power to do so (“Treating court with contempt,” Editorial, July 18).
Such a cancellation will not only fuel inflation but also transfer the debts of middle-class borrowers to working-class Americans who chose not to attend college.
Why should a bartender or waitress pay the law-school debt of someone else? Why should a person who chose to serve our country in the military have to pay the college debt of someone who chose not to serve?
This debt transfer is nothing more than a shameless bid to buy votes.
Both I and my son paid off our student loans. I have no desire to repay Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s student loans.
Kenneth Fitzgerald
Hicksville
Leave it to sneaky Joe to find a way around the Supreme Court’s decision about the student-loan giveaway.
How can a sitting president ignore a Supreme Court decision?
Why aren’t the American people — or at least the citizens who did not vote for this man — up in arms about this?
How many part-time jobs am I going to have to take on to help pay for these giveaways?
I took out a college loan in 1973. Can I get a refund or repayment? I doubt it.
Biden is using these methods to buy votes, and we should be outraged. If former President Donald Trump tried to initiate the same thing, the Democrats would be all over him.
Former President Barack Obama was correct when he reportedly warned: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to f - - k things up.” He continues to do so. Disgusting.
Donna Skjeveland
Holbrook
There is no forgiveness. There is no cancellation. There is only a transfer of debt from one person to another.
So why does everyone continue to call it “forgiveness” and “cancellation”?
A. Bianco
Manhasset
Biden has spit in the eyes of the Supreme Court justices who ruled that his self-proclaimed edict that would forgive tuition costs from millions of students was unconstitutional.
Multibillion-dollar decisions like that, which impact millions of borrowers, can only be made by Congress and not unilaterally by a president. That is a fair and accurate reading of the Constitution.
No sooner did the court make its decree than Biden decided to supersede the court in order to reward his constituents by announcing a different payoff scheme to forgive billions in tuition obligations.
This order is no more worthy than was the first. It, too, will quickly be found unconstitutional.
America is then left with a president with diminished faculties who may try again and again until someone tells him to stop. Not unlike training a dog who defecates in every corner of one’s home.
Rich Klitzberg
Boca Raton, Fla.
It’s not fair that taxpayers are going to have to pay for Biden’s student-loan forgiveness program.
Those of us who worked hard to pay off our loans will now have to pay for others with our taxes. If that’s the case, then all of us who have paid back their loans should be reimbursed.
He has no respect for the Supreme Court’s decision in this case.
This is just like the reparations programs that will require taxpayers to pay for something they had nothing to do with. When does it stop?
Stephen Colasacco
The Bronx
Has America become a banana republic? Biden, now a dictator, has no fear of any consequences or accountability.
He has put himself above the law.
His $36 billion student-debt relief shows contempt of Congress, the Supreme Court and the American people.
This lawlessness must be condemned by our elected officials and the media. Or are they part of the problem?
Robert Neglia
The Bronx
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