Obama Forgives Student Debt Of 400,000 Americans
Government-guaranteed loans are a fantastic way to force prices to spiral out of control.  The way student loans were before income-based repayment, we&#x27;d have expected college cost to rise until it meets the lifetime expected benefit of college discounted to the present.<p>With income-based repayment, where your loan balance is forgiven after 20 years, there is no limit to how high it can go.<p>Government-subsidized mortages and mortgage interest deductions have a similarly terrible effect on housing, a basic good that government policy should try to make as cheap as possible.  Instead, government policy is to make it as expensive as possible.