President Joe Biden’s Wednesday announcement that he’s doing well on a campaign pledge to cancel some student loan debt has been met with scorn from Fox News’ most-watched primetime hosts, such as Tucker Carlson, consider this act to be “suicide”.
“If you want to improve the country by disbursing billions of dollars in taxes, you are helping the people who… the people who worked hard to pay them off. [their] Carlson talked about the measure that would eliminate a total of $300 billion in loans.
The Fox host then suggested that “if you really want to get on with debt relief,” it should be allocated to people who “did something useful in college,” not to “attorney or gender studies major or diversity administrator”.
“You don’t want more people like that. Carlson continued. “You would never send money to anyone who supports BLM riots or anyone who claims on Twitter that America is a country of systemic racism. Why are you sending them money? Why are you sending America’s fruits to those who hate America? What is that? That is suicide. No sane person can do that.”
“So what you’re looking at, as always, is class warfare,” Carlson declared. “They reward the people at the top and bottom – those who don’t need it and those who don’t – and crush the struggling middle, the law-abiding people who want to do the right thing.”
In the next hour on Hannity, the host of the same name struck a similar chord, framing Biden’s action as a “reverse Robin Hood” where the “elite” would benefit from the poor and middle classes. (However, the debt cancellation does not apply to individuals earning more than $125,000 per year or couples earning at least $250,000.)
“It should be called the ‘Bid-buying and Biden Voting Act of 2022,'” Hannity lamented, though it was Congress, not the president, that created the acts.
The measure, he stressed, is paid to “hard-working Americans” such as “truck drivers and farmers and welders and small business owners and members of the military,” who will be “a Harvard graduate” loan. gender majors. “
On his radio show earlier in the day, compensation amp Hannity even lamented How the younger Fox News employees who work on his show benefit from the radical socialism of the Green New Deal. “
