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Mike Meru Has $1 Million in Student Loans. How Did That Happen? [WSJ]

https://twitter.com/JoshZumbrun/status/1000005527848542210 ...
outnumbered spot
  05/25/18
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Dead institution
  05/25/18
He's a 6'7" white doctor. I'm sure a wealthy asian woma...
Mind-boggling Kitty Cat
  05/25/18
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black den
  05/25/18
holy fuck this moniker
vibrant alcoholic dysfunction immigrant
  05/25/18
Fuck
Startled meetinghouse
  05/25/18
Love how they casually drop that he is 6’7”
Startled meetinghouse
  05/25/18
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Fragrant idiot
  05/25/18
And lean! With two cute kids and what appears to be a relati...
Startled meetinghouse
  05/25/18
"Mr. Meru pays only $1,589.97 a month—not enough to cov...
talented corner
  05/25/18
He’s on PAYE or IBR for sure
Startled meetinghouse
  05/25/18
An orthodontist doing purely for profit private sector work?
outnumbered spot
  05/25/18
Yes stupid. PSLF is the public interest program. PAYE and IB...
Startled meetinghouse
  05/25/18
PAYE and IBR are not tied to the status of the employer. It...
supple electric furnace
  05/25/18
he's just increased his tax rate 10% for 20yrs instead of pa...
free-loading scourge upon the earth area
  05/25/18
Politicians are going to be sympathetic to deadbeat ORTHODON...
outnumbered spot
  05/25/18
probably not. And yet, his life is infinitely better than yo...
Startled meetinghouse
  05/25/18
Huh. That is the current law and talk about changing it has ...
free-loading scourge upon the earth area
  05/25/18
The tax bomb being forgiven is current law?
outnumbered spot
  05/25/18
Nope
Startled meetinghouse
  05/25/18
Inertia is powerful.
outnumbered spot
  05/25/18
I'm sure he can find a way to make himself insolvent for dis...
Bright Confused Roast Beef Mediation
  05/26/18
xo meru
boyish hell
  05/26/18
“These are choices. We’re not coercing,” said Avishai Sadan,...
boyish hell
  05/26/18
Channeling TRUMP.
outnumbered spot
  05/26/18
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boyish hell
  08/14/18


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Date: May 25th, 2018 9:33 AM
Author: outnumbered spot

https://twitter.com/JoshZumbrun/status/1000005527848542210

Somebody please think of poor orthodontists!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36124932)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 9:34 AM
Author: Dead institution



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Date: May 25th, 2018 9:35 AM
Author: Mind-boggling Kitty Cat

He's a 6'7" white doctor. I'm sure a wealthy asian woman would gladly pay off his loans.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36124944)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 9:37 AM
Author: black den



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Date: May 25th, 2018 9:49 AM
Author: vibrant alcoholic dysfunction immigrant

holy fuck this moniker

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125022)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 9:53 AM
Author: Startled meetinghouse

Fuck

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125041)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 9:57 AM
Author: Startled meetinghouse

Love how they casually drop that he is 6’7”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125069)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 10:06 AM
Author: Fragrant idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125114)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 10:35 AM
Author: Startled meetinghouse

And lean! With two cute kids and what appears to be a relatively thin wife (inside re facial aesthetics).

U: gun in mouth at desk.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125276)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 10:01 AM
Author: talented corner

"Mr. Meru pays only $1,589.97 a month—not enough to cover the interest, so his debt from seven years at the University of Southern California grows by $130 a day. In two decades, his loan balance will be $2 million."

If this is the case, why even pay anything?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125085)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 10:05 AM
Author: Startled meetinghouse

He’s on PAYE or IBR for sure

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125109)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 10:16 AM
Author: outnumbered spot

An orthodontist doing purely for profit private sector work?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125177)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 10:20 AM
Author: Startled meetinghouse

Yes stupid. PSLF is the public interest program. PAYE and IBR are for anyone with the right income to debt ratio.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125199)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 10:45 AM
Author: supple electric furnace

PAYE and IBR are not tied to the status of the employer. It's just a calculation of repayment based on income. Based on my own experience if he's repaying $1,600/mo with a family size of 4 he's probably making well over $200,000 per year. The status of his employer only matters for whether he gets PSLF or not.

Obviously an extreme example but a good one of why the system is so fucking stupid.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125320)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 10:46 AM
Author: free-loading scourge upon the earth area

he's just increased his tax rate 10% for 20yrs instead of paying tuition, and probably makes $200 something. he'll save up for the tax bomb until it gets forgiven, and then retire like anybody who made $150k for their whole career and doesn't have loans.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125335)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: outnumbered spot

Politicians are going to be sympathetic to deadbeat ORTHODONTISTS in the future?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125463)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 11:48 AM
Author: Startled meetinghouse

probably not. And yet, his life is infinitely better than yours, lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125812)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 11:57 AM
Author: free-loading scourge upon the earth area

Huh. That is the current law and talk about changing it has never gone anywhere

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125874)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 11:57 AM
Author: outnumbered spot

The tax bomb being forgiven is current law?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36125880)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 3:56 PM
Author: Startled meetinghouse

Nope

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36127494)



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Date: May 25th, 2018 4:59 PM
Author: outnumbered spot

Inertia is powerful.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36127917)



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Date: May 26th, 2018 6:52 PM
Author: Bright Confused Roast Beef Mediation

I'm sure he can find a way to make himself insolvent for discharge of indebtedness purposes over the course of a few decades.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36133044)



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Date: May 26th, 2018 6:33 PM
Author: boyish hell

xo meru

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36133013)



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Date: May 26th, 2018 6:34 PM
Author: boyish hell

“These are choices. We’re not coercing,” said Avishai Sadan, dean of USC’s Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, where Mr. Meru went to school and one of the most expensive in the U.S. “You know exactly what you’re getting into.”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36133015)



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Date: May 26th, 2018 6:58 PM
Author: outnumbered spot

Channeling TRUMP.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36133069)



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Date: August 14th, 2018 7:30 AM
Author: boyish hell



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3986223&forum_id=2#36614005)