“Out of control government.”
Yes, but academia has gotten a free ride for a long time without paying taxes. Further, some universities grow their endowments on the basis of financial practices that are ‘at best’ treading the line between legal and illegal, and some of their actions are prosecutable. It’s very serious, and very real. Take that into account, and then ask yourself why institutions that have endowments of more than 25-30 billion dollars, and that have employees making high six and even seven figure salaries, should be exempt from taxes as ‘non for profits’, while the rest of us pay them?
Much of that money was given so that students could have scholarships.
So?....With endowments in the billions why are students handed any tuition bill at all? The interest on those billions should be more than enough to pay their tuitions. Use the interest on the billions for the purpose it was intended.