Originally Posted by
nigelsomers
Harsh! Taxpayers didn't subsidise my student loan debt in the long term. It's a debt I owe to the government indexed annually. It's not a donation from taxpayers. The whole point of taking on VET debt is to work in the aviation industry, earn above the threshold, and become an ordinary contributing taxpayer (which also slowly chips away at paying off the VET debt through my aviation career).
Hard to imagine anyone being so unaware! Aviation has always had more than its share of oxygen thieves, so why is this a surprise?