the people that "sacrificed" and paid their own way won't get reimbursed any more than people who do other things that the government sometimes pays for some to do. Like, I'm not getting money back because some people get food stamps. It just is. As for your larger point, yes, we need to pick priorities on spending. I think some kind of fix to the student loan issue frees up a TON of pent up spending ability, which is better for the economy than other options for spending......excepting medicare for all, which we should do for moral and economic reasons. As we've discussed elsewhere, just paying off student debt doe not fix the underlying issues with college costs (and that professors, like teachers, are underpaid).