Carlson, who wrote an opinion piece Thursday with fellow Daily Caller co-founder Neil Patel, said student debt is often why millennials and other young adults are financially ill-equipped to buy a home or start a family.

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“You may be happy with the state of the U.S. economy, but many young people aren’t,” Carlson and Patel wrote. “The main problem — the reason capitalism is increasingly discredited and socialism increasingly popular — is that for too many young people, our current system isn’t working.”

"We need to move the crushing financial burden of student debt off the shoulders of middle-class families and 22-year-olds and back onto the people who’ve gotten rich from it," Carlson and Patel conclude. "That’s an idea every sensible person can support. And there’s a political payoff for any politician wise enough to adopt it."