Subsidizing tuition is wrong

"For to all those who have, more will be given … but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away." -Matthew 25:29

This passage in the Bible isn't an instruction, but more a warning of what is to come. And I know not everybody is Christian, so Bible quotes aside, think back to your college or high school days. Remember all the kids who didn't take anything seriously and were just using their education as an opportunity to clown around and goof off? Are those the kids you'd want to subsidize with your own money? Because those are the kids we're subsidizing with Biden's student loan forgiveness plan.

Fun fact too — at a price tag of $310 billion, the student loan forgiveness equals about 5.2 percent of this year’s federal spending. That’s from each of our federal taxes. This is wrong. It's immoral. It's tantamount to theft. It's taking money from everyone to pay for college.

I went to college, this plan will benefit me personally, and maybe even I deserve it. But I know most of the people who went to college don't. And I would rather none of us had it. Because it's wrong. We shouldn't be subsidizing college experiences with tax money. It's just wrong.

Darin Lunde

Cedar Rapids