New York Times Asks People With Student Debt Burden: Have You Considered Murdering The Relative Who Helped You Get A Loan?

Also: Biden is against expanding the Supreme Court because that would "politicize" the issue

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court — a corrupt body of nine arbiters of the law, several members of which have accepted exotic trips on mega-yachts from billionaires (as well as school tuition for relatives) with pending cases before the court (oh, they also vote to hide their spouses’ treasonous activities) — voted “Fuck No” on Joe Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan.*

Shortly thereafter, the New York Times published “Ways You Can Still Cancel Your Federal Student Loan Debt”. The last of the six options? Death. Or more bluntly, murder or suicide.

This is not something that most people would choose as a solution to their debt burden. Still, if you’re a young adult wondering about the federal PLUS loans your relatives took out to pay for your education, you may be wondering whether the debt dies with the person or people who take it on.

It does. The federal government will not make a claim on their estate, and you will not inherit the balance.

As Parker Malloy noted, this suggestion is “a little dark”.

Someone else pointed out that the Times’ headline did not state something like “If you’re being crushed under a mountain of student loan debt, here’s everything you might want to know”. Nope. The article promises to tell you ways you can still cancel your debt! So these are legit possibilities. Perhaps your uncle could have “an accident” or, if you took out the loan, you could blow your head off — and your debt will be wiped away.

The Times revised the article, but did not — as they usually do — include a correction noting what change(s) were made.

*: Joe Biden is against expanding the Supreme Court — a logical move which would neuter the current far-right crusade to roll back the clock on all facets of human rights — because it would be a mistake and would “politicize” the Court. Yep. That clueless senile fucker really said that. And then he went all Susan Collins and claimed that some members of “the court are beginning to realize their legitimacy is being questioned in ways that it hadn’t been questioned in the past” and so they will learn their lesson and make good decisions in the future. Expanding the court would be the crowning achievement of his long political career, but Biden’s gonna Biden, and refuse to take an easy step to give basic help for decades to tens of millions of Americans.