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Comment by WalterBright

Easy access to credit is an important component to a free market. Making borrowing illegal just leads to all sorts of inefficient contortions to do it another way.

For example, businesses often need to borrow money in order to get started.

For another, "bridge" loans and "revolving lines of credit" allow a business to operate when the timing of receiving payments does not line up with the timing of when bills are due.

Forgiving debts means that interest rates must rise to cover those losses.

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