the government should regulate tuition costs to keep them reasonable.
and they should make sure student loans dont hurt people's credit
reports.
Definitely the wrong answer. Let me explain how "social democracy" works:
(A) Government says X privilege is a right
(B) Government makes departments handing out stolen money and regulations making X easier to get as a "compromise"
(C) X is still had through an open market, the artificial government made increase in effective demand increases the price
People flagellate because X is a supposedly a right and now it's becoming harder to get!
Government hands out even more stolen money, makes even more regulations
....rinse and repeat until:
(X)Price of X is so insanely and "inexplicably high" that people start calling for the X industry to be subject to price fixing, and then nationalization.
(Z) Government (whose policies caused the price) throw up their hands with an evil grin [guess what, price fixing and nationalization don't improve supply]
Rail transport, housing, healthcare, education, and in some non-US examples food
Overwhelming evidence.
If people want affordable college again they need to stop rewarding colleges charging absurd tuition for useless degrees.
Now as for this student loan forgiveness stuff, a very very important question as to the practical effects depends on who is left with the bill.
Paying the loans off with tax money = maximum evil and maximum damage
Telling the lenders that the government scammed them (yes it was the government, who do you think backs these things or provides them directly) = minimum damage, minimum evil
Telling the universities to give the money back = medium damage, medium evil