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| Sen. Elisabeth Warren |
Tuesday's CBS Evening News ran a mushy feature on Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren's liberal plan to let Americans refinance their student loans by hiking taxes on the wealthy.
Nowhere did CBS explain that Warren would pay for the refinancing through tax hikes. What also went unreported is that Warren's bill is a Democratic ploy to garner the youth vote in an election year. The network instead spent the entire report making the Senator's case, quoting Warren and a supporter of her proposal arguing that the government needed to let Americans refinance their "crushing" loans.
Correspondent Anthony Mason teed up Warren to defend her own bill:
MASON: (on camera) If we don't do this, what happens?
WARREN: Student loan debt is crushing people in this country. It's – it's preventing this economy from moving forward.And CBS helped further Warren's bill by making the case for her. "30 percent of outstanding federal student debt is in default, forbearance, or deferment, and, Scott, the average debt for college seniors is now $29,000," Mason reported.
Yet the Evening News couldn't even report what Boston's CBS affiliate pointed out: "She [Warren] would pay for her proposal with a tax increase on wealthy Americans." Also, Politico saw through Warren's intentions to partisanship, noting the proposal is yet another part of the Democratic "Fair Shot Agenda" in an election year.
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