[Siena Dreaming]

The interest mandate would give the recipient of the loan incentive to to pay the loan back faster.

To the benefit of the taxpayer.

[griswold3]

True.
However, the billions of dollars in interest have not gone to the deficit as written in the legislation. Now, it has become a slush fund for Treasury. Once they get used to having this revenue stream, the picking of ‘winners and losers’ commences.