Originally Posted by Dude
Key word being "as much as it wants." It's being run by a body so committed to limiting debt that it passed its own debt cap on itself, enforced by automatic spending cuts so dramatic it would NEVER ACTUALLY allow them to actually happen, cross their hearts. Because that worked out so well for Dr. Strangelove.

Also, nobody beats them in an arms race.

My point is that the federal government is the *source* of the college arms race.

Massive amounts of debt that has no business existing in the first place are being provided to colleges and universities through students.