The latest news out of the Democrat-run State "Education System" is that tuition at the University system be "capped" at an annual increase of 6.5% per year for the next four years. Of course, that's how government views economics -- they simply dictate all spending and everything else will bend to their will.

Why do they want to do this? Because tuition has gone up 71% in the last 6 years. Why has the tuition gone up? Because the state keeps giving more money to the schools for students. In North Carolina, the state gives money to the schools for each student enrolled. That money is used as part of the tuition for the student. Therefore, the more money the state gives, the higher the tuition.

So, will costs go down? No, of course not. So how will the schools get the money? According to UNC President Erskine Bowles, "from the State Legislature." This is the world according to Democrats: instead of state schools getting money from the state, the state schools instead should get more money from the state.

How about we do something logical? How about we ask the students to pay for their own education? Wouldn't that be a novel concept? How about students get exactly what they pay for? Or, better yet, why not get the state out of trying to maintain a monopoly on higher education?

And yes, I'm aware that "logic" and "Democrat-led NC state government" do NOT go in the same sentence, EVER.

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