All the analogies are bad. You should be able to fund the studies of future generations without retroactively changing rules that applied to past generations. The correct analogy would be: why do you pay the guy who didn’t work last weekend retroactively for those days they didn’t work, if I was actually working: now we both made the same money and I worked 2 extra days for it which is unfair.
Disclaimer: my education was at no cost to me and I never had student debt, I have no skin in the game. The conversation should be about how we help tomorrow’s students, not about giving money to an arbitrary set of yesterday students.
All the analogies are bad. You should be able to fund the studies of future generations without retroactively changing rules that applied to past generations. The correct analogy would be: why do you pay the guy who didn’t work last weekend retroactively for those days they didn’t work, if I was actually working: now we both made the same money and I worked 2 extra days for it which is unfair.
Disclaimer: my education was at no cost to me and I never had student debt, I have no skin in the game. The conversation should be about how we help tomorrow’s students, not about giving money to an arbitrary set of yesterday students.