Quote Originally Posted by VictorCharlie View Post
The state support went down as a percentage but not as a value. Since some portions increased making the pie bigger somer parts decreased as a percent. I shouldn't have to explain fractions to you. The states have never used federal money to fund universities and colleges, so how much money they are getting from the feds now or then for other programs is irrelevant and even if this was the case it wouldn't be an across the board effect b/c as I mentioned earlier when I did address this point each state would deal with it uniquely.

Tuition has seen a spike in relation to the subsidies hence this entire thread.

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Pack it in Kirk. You got owned on this one.
Great, we agree state support went down as a percentage of total funding. So now we're arguing over whether cuts in federal funding to states caused states to cut funding to state universities. If it wasn't federal cuts in state aid that caused states to cut university funding, what was it?

Your own graph shows a huge spike in federal sunsidies for higher education since 2000. Total subsidies increased more than fourfold. So how come tuition costs didn't increase fourfold in the same time period? Tuition costs kept on increasing at a slightly higher rate than the pre-2000 rate but there was no dramatic spike as a reult of the fourfold increase in subsidies. Why not? Doesn't this show that there's no relation between tuition fees and federal subsidies of higher education? If not, why not?