Student Loan Forgiveness With Jerry Bowyer
FEB 25, 2023
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Politics by its very nature is controversial, perhaps none more so than the administration’s move to forgive student loan debt. Student loan forgiveness is popular among the millions of Americans who owe more than $1.7 trillion for their education. But it has its detractors. Our guest, Jerry Bowyer, is among them. We’ll talk about it today on Faith and Finance.

Jerry Bowyer is our resident economist. He’s a columnist with WORLD Opinions and the author of The Maker Versus the Takers: What Jesus Really Said About Social Justice and Economics.

  • Jerry says that with the national student debt load at $1.7 trillion, college education has become a financial bubble. The cost of higher education has continued to spiral upward without an increase in the quality of the education students are receiving.
  • He says debt is what creates financial bubbles, and clearly, debt has been inflating the cost of a college education.
  • Bowyer also says the Biden administration’s proposal to forgive and simply write off hundreds of billions of dollars in student debt is not only constitutionally questionable, but it would also further fuel inflation.
  • If the student loan forgiveness plan does survive legal challenges, Bowyer says Christians who don’t benefit from the plan should still be thankful that the Lord was able to develop their character through paying back the debt they owed.
  • Bowyer also puts this into context and explains how this relates (or doesn’t) to Deuteronomy 15:1, which reads, “At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.” Is student loan forgiveness biblical?
  • He provides another Scripture reference that he says is a more apt comparison.

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