Can We Stop Bleeding The Taxpayers To Cover Unpaid Student Loans? – OpEd

By George Leef*

In one of the nation’s greatest blunders, we (that is, our representatives in Congress) decided to subsidize higher education with easy-to-get loans for anyone who wanted to give college a try. The total of student loan debt is $1.7 trillion; some of the debtors can’t pay back what they owe, and our...