Gutfeld on Student Debt Forgiveness: I Didn’t Realize that the Whole Point of Paying My Taxes Is that Someone Could Travel Abroad

PIRRO: “Go ahead, Greg.”
GUTFELD: “First of all, AOC’s district is a nightmare. I mean, Venezuelans walk in and they leave. Instead of helping her constituents, crime victims, seniors who no longer have pharmacies to go to because they closed, people who need jobs but can’t find them because somehow Amazon never came here, I wonder why that happened. Instead she decides to bail out the non-binary, Pink-haired gender studies major from Wellesley because, you know — “
TARLOV: “Don’t ‘Seven Sisters’ that.”
GUTFELD: “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. And just that travel abroad thing, I didn’t realize that the whole point of a government and the whole point of paying my taxes is so that somebody can travel abroad. Do you think the truck driver making his auto payments is asking for a handout, you know, so he can go backpacking through Europe, traipsing from one hostel to another until he passes out in the red light district of Amsterdam? Jesse?”
(Laughter)
WATTERS: “I didn’t pass out.”
GUTFELD: “Yeah. I didn’t travel abroad when I was young, it wasn’t until I was older, and that was for a medical procedure. This could be solved fairly, which you think the Democrats would embrace because it is all about fairness. So, why not split the load, right, between schools, banks, and borrower? Because it is not really about fairness, it is about votes. They would prefer to bill the taxpayers because the taxpayers are powerless, unlike the academia and unlike the banks who have actual power and can come after you. And finally, they are always conflating intentionality with functionality, so as long as it’s compassion, it’s good. But if you look at all the areas that Dems apply compassion, which is crime, immigration, women’s sports, here with the loans, it’s bad. It’s bad because they never factor in how their compassion impugns other people. Whether the loans, it’s money being stolen from other people, whether it’s female athletes, whether it’s hardworking Americans who have to compete for jobs, all of this stuff is viewed through the lens of compassion. When they say these people need help paying their bills, that is no different than ‘These migrants need a sanctuary,’ or ‘This trans woman needs to be her best self.’ They are all the same, but in this compassion, in this weird compassion filter, it ignores the cost that it impugns on everyone else. In this case, it’s theft. You cannot call it forgiveness, you cannot call it loan cancellation, they are stealing money. And if you are a hardworking American, how you can support this guy who has taken money right out of your pocket? Then you deserve him.”