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Right To Vote vs Student Debt.... Which One?

As the title suggests, the article that I found most interesting is from the blog, Splinter, and it addresses the question of student debt (The article URL is below). I know that as a high school student going into college in a few years, this will affect me almost immediately; and I suspect that quite a few of you are going to also be facing this or are facing this now. The question of student debt is something that is talked about a lot, especially in college. The article itself is fairly self-explanatory, and I don't want to explain the article here, so I will leave with the comment that we as students should not be made to suffer because of the instability of the economy. What do you think?


http://splinternews.com/how-much-would-you-sell-your-right-to-vote-for-1814591633

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