My student loans are 299 a month and I’m not even using my degree.

100%, I don't want others to suffer under the burden of overwhelming debt, to live in dilapidated housing, to duck every time they hear gunshots, or plead with landlords and police to get neighboring drug dealers to stop harassing my spouse while I'm cranking out another 80 hour week at work, to eat ramen noodles and peanut butter sandwiches for years, while watching our peers live in grander housing in safe neighborhoods, buying fancy clothes and coasting through college for degrees with low demand and entirely predictable low-income, and then often even dropping out before they've completed their studies. This was our life for nearly a decade. It was the most trying, difficult, and depressing time in our lives. I 100% do not want others to suffer through those conditions for a decade just so they can get an education, better themselves, and better society. So, we made those sacrifices, suffered those times, took responsibility for our debts, and made things better. BUT, that burden, that setback cost us dearly, and still has us far behind others who received greater assistance either from aid or from parents or from grand parents. We'll never catch up with those peers. Never. Shouldering debt like that for nearly a decade assures that you'll struggle even beyond the period where you were carrying those loans. And now, because of those sacrifices and the forever conditioning to live extremely frugal, I have a small chance of making a small amount of help for our children. I can provide shelter, I can help with tuition (not nearly enough, but maybe some). Our children won't need to live in dangerous housing or scrape for food, but that margin, that little extra money we MIGHT have, if you take any more in the form of taxes, and give it to someone else, you're taking from us and people like us. You're not going to affect the millionaires and billionaires, and your not addressing the root of the problem. College, higher education, improving our society, should NOT cost so much. Deal with that problem first. Raise taxes for THAT problem, and I'd support the initiative. Raise taxes so that you can take from people like us who made sacrifices specifically so our families would not suffer as we did, and disabling us from saving them, and causing that exact same scenario to play out again for our families. NO. I cannot support that approach. Fix the cost first. It's just like healthcare. No one wants health insurance. What they really want is affordable health CARE. No one wants to build an even larger pool of cash to give to overpriced education, which ultimately always funnels to the op to a few executive-level people. What they want is affordable education. Also, everyone wants free stuff, but at least in my lifetime, I've never experienced getting things for free. There is always a cost, a consequence.

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