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To: TimF who wrote (66009)	4/10/2018 6:48:21 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 358095

Y’all are totally overthinking this. Those prices went up as a direct result of the expansion of the student loans program. I’d you put trillions of tax dollars in a pile and say, “You can have it if you raise prices,” prices will go up 100pct of the time.

To: TimF who wrote (66009)	4/10/2018 6:54:17 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 358095

Tim, I never said gov costs didn't go up. I'm merely pointing out that you can't say anything at all by looking at tuition and fee increases by themselves. You would have zero idea what is happening just looking at that, because of the issue I pointed out. For reference, I went to a private college (small religiously affiliated liberal arts college) and a private university for grad school (big name private U) and the college has gone up about 3x over 35 years, while the U went up less than 3x. So that is an example of full tuition cost at a private school where tuition made up cr 90% of the budget (for the college) and I assume rather less for the U (which has a huge endowment). But those figures are much less than the graph you posted. So I think that shows how bogus that graph is, IF you are trying to infer the total cost of education. 3x over 35 years is close to what that has been. But if your metric is what in state students pay out of pocket at state Colleges, that could be very different. That latter metric would say nothing useful about the total cost change over 30 years however and would instead be much larger so all it would do is confuse the willfully ignorant...