Sounds and awful lot like this: bsky.app/profile/bmck...

This also hurts everyone by making the FAFSA needlessly more complex. Plenty of private-sector businesses help society (e.g. affordable housing, health care providers, waste management). Doesn't mean we should create a laundry list of sectors that exempt you from normal people's rules.

Execs frequently take low "wage" income in exchange for stock options & benefits. So it would be quite easy for a wealthy fisheries family to get student financial aid while owning a company worth millions (or more!). All while we put most students through the FAFSA ringer.

The largest fisheries employ thousands of people. Trident Seafoods has 3,600 employees in Alaska alone. And unlike "small" businesses here, there is no FTE threshold for the fisheries at all.

There are currently 13 million borrowers in IDR plans. For many, the forgiveness owed to them under *current law* has been on hold due to court orders and slow-walking from the Trump Administration. They may be walked right into a catastrophic tax bill next year and beyond.

These are borrowers who've paid 20-25+ years, had their schools collapse, or been defrauded, and now they'll face thousands of dollars in new taxes. While the Republican bill narrowly addresses death & disability, it shamefully leaves the vast majority of borrowers worse off.

The American Rescue Plan Act removed surprise tax bombs on IDR, closed school discharges, and borrower defense discharges through December 2025. The new Republican tax bill lets that relief expire while pushing trillions for the wealthy. thecollegeinvestor.com/57708/tax-pl...

It appears they just did the same thing for the American Opportunity Tax Credit and Lifetime Learning Credit: