“If you think the federal student-loan program looks like a bad deal for taxpayers, imagine how it would look with honest accounting. And now you don’t need to imagine thanks to a new [CBO] report that’s receiving far too little attention. Turns out that the official ‘savings’ for taxpayers of $184 billion over the next decade really add up to $95 billion in losses.’ The ‘scam’ is that Congress has enabled a huge subsidy for universities while claiming that student loans create huge tax savings, the editorial says. It can make that claim because a 1990 law ‘requires a deliberate under-counting of the cost of defaults,’ the editorial says.”

http://www.moneynews.com/FinanceNews/Student-loan-program-scam/2013/07/04/id/513404

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