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[Xithras]

63. Colleges often have little control over tuition. Republicans would love your suggestion

...because it would be a gateway to shutting down public universities and colleges entirely.

There are three primary factors driving tuition increases in public colleges and universities:

1. State governments are slashing financial support for the institutions, forcing them to rely more on tuition to keep the lights on.
2. Rising operational costs. That includes everything from rising healthcare costs, to the increasing costs of materials for building maintenance and technology infrastructure that didn't exist 30 years ago. Those costs must be recouped through rising tuition.
3. As wages stagnate, alumni donations have dropped considerably for most colleges and universities. Those donations once allowed tuition to be kept down, but they must rise as the amounts decline.

Your suggestion would give the 'Thugs an easy way to kill public education entirely. Cut state contributions to public schools to force a tuition increase beyond inflation rates. Watch the students vanish as loans dry up. Watch the schools implode as the lost tuition from those vanished students forces each and every one of them into bankruptcy, as few states give their public schools enough money to actually operate. Voila, no more public colleges. The Republicans will be downright giddy.