>that's how society works though... Societally these are things that we have determined are important and deserve funding.

I always found this to be a non-compelling answer. Society can mean any number of things and changes all the time. You can say the same thing about anything you want.

Obviously "Society" had decided that individuals were responsible for the college debt that they took on until this last year, and then it changed. Never mind the fact that neither society at large or their elected representatives voted on it, just a single individual via executive action.

If you strip away the appeal to "society", it is just an argument that more redistribution is better than less.