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Greens announce plan to wipe HECS debts and make university free (www.sbs.com.au)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"The Greens have said they will wipe $81 billion in student debt — but how will they pay for it?"

Well, how about a single mining company paying even a teeny bit of tax?

Imagine that!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is even worse than when journalists normally ask this question. It's a debt not a payment.

They will pay for it by finding a $2 coin in the centre console of their government funded car to buy a biro to cross off the line item.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fuck me, the "rhetorical" question in the lede is answered in the article, buried in the fifteenth paragraph.

The policy proposal falls under the Greens' so-called 'Robin Hood reforms' and they have said they will pay for the plan by "taxing big corporations that are profiting off price gouging during a cost of living crisis".

This is borderline disinformation by sbs