You’re talking about two different problems. But good job conflating the two if that was your intention. Which it seems it was.

@nameless_prole Seems like the same problem to me: college isn’t affordable.

We can address this in a systemic and meaningful way by making it affordable for everyone going forward, or we can make it affordable for a select few people who chose to take on debt at this one specific time. One addresses the problem in a meaningful way, the other does not. Canceling debt seems like a political ploy to gain favor with those who have student debt and it seems to have worked, given the downvotes garnered by every comment that isn’t pulling out pitchforks over this.

On what basis do you claim these are different issues?