Dennis Kucinich: “the budget bill attacks students and low- income and middle class families. It targets low and moderate income Americans…”

“the budget bill attacks students and low- income and middle class families. It targets low and moderate income Americans with $70 billion in new tax cuts that will be included in the budget, and those tax cuts favor the super rich. The tax cuts for the rich are placed on the backs of students and their families. Under this bill, student borrowers, already saddled with $17,500 in debt, could be forced to pay up to an additional $1,500 for his or her college loans. The bill raises student loan interest rate caps, raises borrower interest rates and fees for consolidation loans, and raises student loan taxes, and puts billions of dollars in student aid at risk by cutting all the critical funds used to carry out and administer student aid programs. So we have more and more young Americans who will not be getting a college education, but they will be getting a political education. If you do not vote, the politicians in Washington will ignore you, shove you aside, cut your education funds. It is a call to young Americans to get involved, register, vote, and reclaim this country. ____________________”