You've got that one right....it still bothers me, no end, although I'm ignorant as to dollar amounts and how significant or insignificant. To think of stressed taxpayers paying the way to university --- most of which are swimming in cash, over-charging, delivering poor value, stupid curricula ---chaps me.
Once again, you are falling for the party line.
The taxpayers actually benefited because more people attended the universities and colleges. They paid like everyone else. They just got the benefit of the in-state rate, which is high enough.
Even the Dallas Morning News which hates Perry with every fibre of their liberal being had an article analyzing this tuition thing and concluded that it was beneficial to all.
I don’t know about the colleges swimming in cash. They say they are not. I do know that college education is way over-rated for a lot of people and that college educations are not what they used to be.
The main benefit is something to put on your resume. Many companies use requiring a degree as a way of easily eliminating a lot of people, some of whom would be better than the college grads they eventually hire.
I think my daughter wasted time pursuing an advanced degree when she could have done better spending that time working in her profession and working her way up.
But I digress. That whole tuition thing was a red herring and much ado about nothing.