If you went to a community college or state university, you did not pay for all of your education. You benefited from tax payer dollars.

In the last 20 years, states started putting less money into advanced education. This is one of the reasons why so many are in debt.

Forgiving those student loans is not giving them a free ride. This is not a zero sum game. Those of us who are not in debt with school loans can still benefit from not having a large percentage of the community beholden to the banks. If those with loans are not paying the banks they can put that money into other things and boost the economy.

The only people benefitting from student loan debt are the banks. The rest of us are not getting screwed by forgiving it. We all gain but not evenly.