To: President Donald Trump, The Illinois State House, The Illinois State Senate, Governor J.B. Pritzker, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Stop the freebies
We would like our elected representatives to oppose supporting the irresponsibility of persons who contracted with lenders who loaned them money in good faith. Persons who incurred debt to attend institutions of higher learning and legally borrowed the money to do so, would be ill-served by learning that, through a program of debt forgiveness, they do not have to keep the commitment they made when they borrowed the money, but are able to foist that responsibility onto others, be it the lender from whom they borrowed or the taxpaying citizens of the United States.
We beseech our elected representatives to apply common sense in this instance and oppose any attempts to communalize the debts of those persons and support the right and just action of holding all persons responsible for the contracts for which they have made themselves legally liable.
Why is this important?
We need to quit making taxpayers pay for other people's loans, student or otherwise. It is unfair to create more debt by forgiving the debt of people who don't keep their committments and forcing the government to increase everybody's taxes to eventually pay for the losses. Or, worse yet, force the banks who gave the loans to lose their investments in the people to whom the loans were given.