Nothing the Government subidizes decreases in cost as far as I’ve seen.
Read "Faculty Lounges"--this Barone does not put enough on the shoulders of the Parasites Hunting Dinner who rip us off, work 11-2 on Tues, Wed, Thurs, let grad students to all the teaching.
After seeing a few kids through college, college professors are starting to look a lot like ambulance-chasing lawyers.
The difference is that a college education produces extremely little in terms of tangible goods. When you subsidize a house, at the end you get a house. When you subsidize an oil well, at the end you get oil (hopefully). But when you subsidize a college education, all you are getting, at best, is a better mind. But there is no tangible asset acquired and, therefore, nothing of real value acquired. You *could* use that mind to get a better job or invent a better technology, etc. but there’s no guarantee of that. Some of the sharpest minds in technology today never completed college before they started making their millions.