Trillions indefensibly squandered on the already privileged? Or a sensible step toward social justice?

Does social justice require that education be free at all levels?

Then this is perhaps defensible as a step toward that.

Or are we about to spend a trillion or so making life a lot easier for people who are going to become doctors, lawyers, and other rather well-heeled types?

People whose ability to acquire these debts in the first place is already a measure of the extent of their privilege?

A pile of loot that real social justice would have us spend on a whole lot of folks who are and will all their lives be far less privileged?

If it isn't all rather too much, anyway.

I mean, in addition to the Green New Deal and Medicare for All?

Really?

Bernie Sanders Unveils Sweeping Bill To Cancel All Student Debt

Pardon me if I say this looks a lot like a bidding war for the votes of the young, and especially the young already in or heading toward college.