Prevent College Debt, Don’t Just Forgive It

It should be the goal of conservatives to institute rapid, expansive college-tuition deflation, with a consequent cashiering of useless administrators.

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Supporters of student-loan debt relief rally in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., February 28, 2023.

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Among conservatives, it was time to pop open bottles of champagne when the Supreme Court ruled that Joe Biden’s attempt to forgive $430 billion in college debt for an estimated 26 million borrowers was unlawful.

The White House plan was plainly unconstitutional: An early War on Terror measure that Congress designed for a small number of military-service members should not be applied to a significant portion of the U.S. population over 20 years later. It was also unjustly regressive — it robs from non-college workers to give to doctors and lawyers. It was an act of class warfare on behalf of the affluent against everyone else.

Michael Brendan Dougherty

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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