Among the foremost threats to individual freedom in America is the abusive and oftentimes lawless behavior of federal administrative agencies, whose vast armies of overpaid bureaucrats remain unaccountable for their excesses.<\/p>\n
Among the most familiar examples of that bureaucratic abuse is the Department of Education (DOE).\u00a0 Recall, for instance, the United States Supreme Court\u2019s humiliating rebuke<\/a> last year of the Biden DOE\u2019s effort to shift hundreds of billions of dollars of student debt from the people who actually owed them onto the backs of American taxpayers.<\/p>\n Even now, despite that rebuke, the Biden DOE launched<\/a> an alternative scheme last month in an end-around effort to achieve that same result.<\/p>\n Well, the Biden DOE is now attempting to shift tens of millions of dollars of student debt held by thousands of students onto the University of Arizona after the fact following U of A\u2019s acquisition of the for-profit online university that it originally targeted.\u00a0 In other words, the Biden DOE is compounding its habit of forgiving student debt by shifting the cost ex post facto onto the backs of Arizona taxpayers.<\/p>\n Not exactly the best way to flatter citizens of a swing state whose votes it desperately seeks amid sinking electoral prospects.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the background.<\/p>\n Amid a rapidly evolving educational environment, in August of 2020 the U of A announced<\/a> its intent to acquire private online Ashford University in an attempt to extend its global reach, a pursuit shared by numerous other traditional universities.\u00a0 The new entity was named the University of Arizona Global Campus (UAGC).<\/p>\n Well, years prior to the acquisition California and federal bureaucrats had accused<\/a> Ashford of \u201cdeceptive\u201d tactics, and last year the Biden DOE announced<\/a> that it would discharge $72 million dollars in debt held by 2,300 of Ashford\u2019s former students.<\/p>\n