It's also interesting that politicians want to means-check every penny that goes to the general public, including the stimulus and debt forgiveness but also welfare, food stamps, medicaid, and so on. It's imperative that nobody is taking advantage of the system! But when it comes to PPP and other handouts to corporations, suddenly they have no way to means-check or figure out in some other way whether the recipient actually needs it.

It is interesting how stimulus checks and PPP aren't treated the same way. However, debt forgiveness is not the same. The government did not compel students into debt. They did compel businesses to close and people to lose their income.

It's also interesting how many politicians who received PPP loans are against student debt forgiveness too.

Getting forgiveness on loans that you chose to take for a school you couldn't afford otherwise is different than getting money from the government after local governments forcibly shut your business down.

People get pissed off when their neighbor gets something and they don't.

They aren't even usually aware when the rich guy in the other neighborhood got a handout.

It was bipartisan. Both parties voted for it. The student debt forgiveness is not bipartisan and even controversial within the Democratic Party.

To be clear... I support stimulus checks and PPP, but not student loan forgiveness.

I do believe that those whose educations wer disrupted by the pandemic should be compensated by having their loans forgiven.

This has to do with government mandates causing monetary harm.

Then you are in a political bubble being spoon-feed reactionary commentary, because there are all kinds of outrage over PPP fraud and abuse

$2.3 Trillion Trump tax cuts