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Richard Vedder's Forgive Student Loans

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In Richard Vedder’s “Forgive Student Loans?” he clearly shows support to his thesis, his tone helps the audience feel as he does, although, at times his tone felt too angered he was still able to convey his message. His purpose for this essay was to reach Wall Street protesters and show them why they're wrong. He used a lot of evidence that supported his idea that student loans shouldn’t be forgiven. For example, “The Wall Street protesters argue that if debt-burdened young persons were free of this albatross, they would start spending more on goods and services, stimulating employment. Yet we demonstrated with stimulus packages in 2008 and 2009 (not to mention the 1930s, Japan in the 1990s, etc.) that giving people more money to spend will

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