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Regular Debt Vs Student Debt

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Many students have argued that they will just take the extreme debt and file for bankruptcy later on in life. The main problem with that argument is that they assume a student loan is similar to other loans. For example in order to get out of a car loan debt you need to prove “undue hardship.” With student loan debts the taxpayers want to ensure that there is no way for you to just walk away from a student loan debt. According to a Harvard Journal Article the difference between regular debt and student loan debt is, “The Bankruptcy Code’s treatment of education debt may reflect the view that a loan from the government qualitatively differs from a loan from a commercial lender.” Since they are not given the same background check that commercial

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