Sanders and Warren on Debt Cancellation and Higher Education Finance - An Early Assessment

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Senators Sanders' and Warren's higher education finance and student debt relief plans are game-changers. And some version of one of the plans - ideally, a synthesis of both - must and will be adopted.

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Now that both of the two most progressive candidates for the Presidency – Senators Sanders and Warren – have offered their plans for higher education finance and student debt relief, the time would seem fitting for a preliminary comparison and assessment. Let us first answer the 'why' question, then compare the two Senators’ replies to the 'how' question.

Both Senators Sanders’ and Warren's plans include prospective and retrospective components, meaning in turn that there are two ‘why?’ questions for each plan – ‘why reform going forward?,’ and ‘why relief looking backward?’. The answers to both questions are straightforward. To start with the retrospective – debt relief – components of the plans, the ‘why’ sounds in both justice and macroeconomic health. Outstanding higher education debt became theRepresentative Ilhan Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota, from left, Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont, and Representative Pramila Jayapal, a Democrat from Washington, arrive to a news conference announcing college affordability legislation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, June 24, 2019.

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All of the Democrats are 100 percent better then Trump and I would vote for any of them over Trump in a heartbeat. They are all honorable candidates but of course the strongest candidates have to stand out. In my personal opinion Sanders and Warren are the best options.

It is going to be a lot more difficult because the Democrats did not push to impeach Trump so as a result not everyone takes the Democrats credibility seriously especially Trump die hards. If they choose Biden as their nominee I will be pessimistic that the results of 2016 repeat

In my personal opinion the strongest team dual ticket would be Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren for 2020 to correct the all the wrong Trump and Pence have done. I am still disappointed that Trump was not impeached and he doesn't deserve to run in 2020 as if he did nothing wrong

Totally believe SOME people should have student loans forgiven. Not the ones who could've taken a loan from their parents. Definitely can't be one size fits all or the rich will find the loopholes and exploit it. StudentDebt StudentLoans

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