Cutting funding to higher education, in good times and bad IS directly related to the overall tuition increase.
Oh so for every dollar in cut funding, tuition increases $4-$10 dollars? Got some support for that alchemy?
Other research universities in other countries will take up the slack.
Sounds good, but clearly they don't, and moreover, why should they? They could be reducing costs across the board and using that money to fund technology to identify those kids that can hack college and need the money, not proliferating the bogus notion that "most kids are college material." That can only be true if the threshold for college ready is lowered to, well, where it is now, but even that doesn't work as kids are staying longer, more kids are not graduating, and more kids are leaving with enormous loans - the research unis are not helping them.
You can try to pass it off on some pub conspiracy, but this is a dem "make everyone equal" feel good bullshit policy that goes back to the 70s.
Your precious dem snowflakes are as much on the take as the pubs, otherwise they'd be gone. Inclusive policy for college education is bankrupting the middle class, especially the lower middle class who had no business in college to begin with.
Trickle down economics is a bullshit non sequitur that marxists drag up to pretend that Reagan didn't raise the hell out of both spending and taxes.
College education's rapid rise in tuition is directly caused by "trickle-up" philosophy (pre-Reagan) where everyone should be able to go to college regardless the costs - that is indisputable, as the policy changed, the costs changed.
You can try to blame whatever made-up pub policy you like, but that is the fact. We wanted all the moron snowflakes to do beer bongs for 6 years so that they would not feel like they were losers and the rest got to pay for it.
I fail to see how anyone can look at the results of stuffing every college in the nation with sub-115 IQ kids who are in turn stuffed with tens of thousands in guaranteed loans and conclude the resulting skyrocketing default rate and extended stay undergrad phenomenon has anything to do with "trickle-down" or any other pub policy. Absurd.
Kids with degrees cannot get real jobs, kids with degrees cannot pay their inflated loans, kids with degrees wasted years in "college" all because the feel-good make believe philosophy of the left told morons they were capable when they really weren't.
They were hung out to dry and now the flaccid defense is "trickle-down," LOL. I'd be shocked if most of those screwed over by the false pretense sold by the left are stupid enough to buy into that crock, but confirmation bias and ego are strong drugs.
Oh, and don't think the other side of the coin, the professors, have fared better under this moronic system - they have been reduced to beggars in many cases, having to wait 10+ years for tenure, if they are lucky.
Meh, the rest of Europe was mildly impressed with the US college system, but they knew not to bother with the rat race and continue to choose their brightest instead of the masses and Asia is quickly catching up with the US, and will shortly stop sending so many grad students here as their unis are getting good, fast, and the US's colleges and unis will begin to wither, like everything else given and not earned.