President Biden on Wednesday lamented soaring college costs to justify his sweeping student loan cancellation. Students, he feels your pain. Yet he fails to recognize that the root causes of high costs are federal-loan and student-aid subsidies.
Like other Great Society programs, federal student loans and grants were initially aimed at helping low-income Americans. They have since become another all-you-can-eat entitlement. Its costs grow on autopilot as lawmakers boost subsidies in the name of making higher education more affordable, but in reality doing the opposite.
