GOP Lawmaker Fears Reducing Student Debt Will Keep Poor Kids From Joining Military

A Republican member of Congress fears Joe Biden’s plan to cancel scholar mortgage debt for hundreds of thousands of People might have a devastating impact on the U.S. armed forces.

Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) lamented Thursday on Twitter that relieving crushing debt for low-income People paying off scholar loans might cut back the quantity of people that be part of the army to fund their greater training.

“Pupil mortgage forgiveness undermines one among our army’s biggest recruitment instruments at a time of dangerously low enlistments,” he wrote.

Pupil mortgage forgiveness undermines one among our army’s biggest recruitment instruments at a time of dangerously low enlistments.

— Jim Banks (@RepJimBanks) August 25, 2022

Not surprisingly, Banks’ suggestion made lots of people preventing mad.

"If we won't extort folks of restricted means to hitch the army, and threat their lives whereas we reduce taxes for the wealthy, how will we battle wars?" Possibly have the wealthy go to the army to qualify for tax cuts? Huh? Or is it solely the poor and dealing class who needs to be extorted? https://t.co/XPJGvFqNaT

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) August 25, 2022

"Pupil mortgage forgiveness is making it tough to control poor and determined youth into a really actual likelihood of getting them killed."

Mounted it for you. https://t.co/hmePgPgCsa

— Heather Antos (@HeatherAntos) August 25, 2022

1. Holding folks impoverished to take care of a warfare machine is a few villainous shit

2. Recruitment is low due to competitors and 20 years of dumb wars

3. You are a Republican and a capitalist; if you need extra People to enlist, PAY THEM MORE https://t.co/nfEnaR8wmR

— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) August 25, 2022

that is really so fucking embarrassing lmao. GOOD. let's decrease these enlistment charges, good lord. https://t.co/wzYJ6dc1Ap

— Alex Schlesinger (@alextalkscomics) August 25, 2022

Republicans consider lower-income of us ought to conscript themselves into the army to flee poverty https://t.co/rQkvQ4Gk9d

— Fiddler (@cFidd) August 25, 2022

As I notice at present, most of those GOP arguments begin from the idea that Republican voters need their very own children to maneuver again into the home, be shipped abroad, or drain their mother and father' financial savings. Which....I doubt it! https://t.co/xjFxs2DvEnhttps://t.co/HVNeAPsCrD

— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) August 25, 2022

Possibly enlistment is down as a result of Republicans fist bump once they deny advantages to veterans. https://t.co/dHHlghkXvQ

— Kevin Hench (@KevinHench) August 25, 2022

It's important to be one thing of a monster to assume it.

To say it out loud, it's important to be one thing of a fucking fool. https://t.co/Gi42YUnzXm

— Ari Cohn (@AriCohn) August 25, 2022

Did he imply to explicitly state that the army is indentured servitude for a lot of? https://t.co/TJ0hQlGO8i

— Anshel Sag (@anshelsag) August 25, 2022

Whomst will we feed to the warfare god if we alleviate the struggling of hundreds of thousands? https://t.co/RKqTqvftTy

— Kim Boekbinder (@KimBoekbinder) August 25, 2022

One particular person lamented that Banks’ tweet might have a devastating influence on one explicit demographic: satirists.

Jesus Christ, dude, we satirists cannot compete with this. "Who will fill our army's graveyards if they'll afford faculty as a substitute?" https://t.co/abVjIq9K8v

— Fred Van Lente (@fredvanlente) August 25, 2022