A sizable portion of college students believe that Uncle Sam should “cancel” their school loans, and of those, 39% believe it should include debts of $50,000 to “all of it.”
But in a new Young America’s Foundation survey of high school and college students, that entitlement was tempered when it was pointed out that others who didn’t go to college would get stuck with the bill.
When asked if they felt it was unfair that noncollege students would have to pay the high tuition debt of those who did, college students, by a 47%-31% margin, and high schoolers, by a larger margin of 58%-21%, agreed.
“The new data from YAF’s polling underscores the importance of facts over liberal talking points,” said former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, president of Young America’s Foundation.
“Generation Z and millennials do hold some liberal views, but these findings highlight that many young people simply have not heard a differing viewpoint or been taught the facts. The rising generation values fairness, and YAF will continue to show young people that progressive ideas are — at their core — unfair and unjust,” he added.
College debt has been a hit issue since the 2020 presidential election, and President Joe Biden has already begun to make moves to have taxpayers cover the college debt of America’s elite youths.
The survey, done in cooperation with Townhall, also did a before-and-after test on the $15 minimum wage proposals in Congress. Naturally, 69% of students like the idea. But that support dropped nearly 20 points when they were told it could kill 1.4 million jobs.
