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by lapcat 795 days ago
> The institutions should be held liable for this debt, not the tax payer, and our government should not guarantee or subsidize these loans.

A lot of the institutions are government entities, taxpayer sponsored public universitites.

It's analogous to suing police departments for police brutality: it's not the police officers who end up paying (police officers don't have millions of dollars to pay out) but rather the taxpayers of the cities.