"If you are a significant taxpayer and sent your son to a non-private university, you probably paid for considerably MORE than 100 percent of it."
Yes and yes.
One of the things that is driving up college costs are government-sponsored student loans. The colleges felt it was safe to ratchet up the tuition rates because, after all, the students can afford it by simply taking on more "low-rate" student loans that they can pay off later ... when, after getting a sheepskin from our prestigious institution of higher education and snake oil salesmanship, they will most certainly become a captain of industry in no time at all and be able to to pay it all back in short order. These sanctimonious, ivory tower bastards actually think that student loans are a form of student aid that they can lay claim to providing! Meanwhile, they're back in the college vaults counting the earnings on their billion dollar endowments like Scrooge McDuck. 
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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