Fuck me, the “rhetorical” question in the lede is answered in the article, buried in the fifteenth paragraph.
The policy proposal falls under the Greens’ so-called ‘Robin Hood reforms’ and they have said they will pay for the plan by “taxing big corporations that are profiting off price gouging during a cost of living crisis”.
“The Greens have said they will wipe $81 billion in student debt — but how will they pay for it?”
Well, how about a single mining company paying even a teeny bit of tax?
Imagine that!
This is even worse than when journalists normally ask this question. It’s a debt not a payment.
They will pay for it by finding a $2 coin in the centre console of their government funded car to buy a biro to cross off the line item.
Fuck me, the “rhetorical” question in the lede is answered in the article, buried in the fifteenth paragraph.
This is borderline disinformation by sbs