When Sen. Bernie Sanders asked his more than 10 million Twitter followers what erasing all student loan debt would mean for them, he got an answer he might not have expected.
“What would canceling all student debt mean for you and your family?” the Vermont Democrat tweeted Saturday.
What would canceling all student debt mean for you and your family?
— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) December 14, 2019
“Higher taxes to pay for someone else’s investment in their own success,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Republican from Texas, responded Sunday afternoon.
Higher taxes to pay for someone else’s investment in their own success. https://t.co/aGyukYL1uI
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) December 15, 2019
Sanders, a leading Democratic candidate for president, has made nationwide student loan debt forgiveness a hallmark of his policy platform. He has spent most of his political career railing against a “billionaire class” that he says leaves everyday Americans, especially poor people, behind.
The Vermont senator has proposed taxing the extremely rich in order to fund his leftist programs on public healthcare, access to higher education, and combating climate change.
Crenshaw is a freshman member of the House and an outspoken fiscal conservative. Like many Republicans, he has argued that progressive members of Congress, such as Sanders, are proposing dangerous government programs that could cripple the economy and discourage hard work.
