Well for starters, college folks are tax payers too. And I pay a pretty decent bit myself. But everyone has things they wish their tax dollars didn’t pay for. For example, some people are okay with us trucking Israel aid, but not Ukraine.

But if the US collected 4.9T in tax revenue in a single year,and giving us the promised loan relief was $300-400b, then it’s safe to say the 40% of US with degrees contributed quite a bit towards that. It’d be more like a rebate than anything. You could say it came out of OUR tax dollars

Also if your effective tax is over 50%, you must be including sales tax, property tax, maybe self employment tax? Because the highest marginal rate is like 37%. Either way, it sounds like you’re doing pretty well for yourself, so congrats on that.