"There is no reason that tuitions have been outpacing inflation, except for the fact that government has been subsidizing more and more of it."
Just an aside... I had heard that TABOR (taxpayers bill of rights) has had an impact on CU, too. My understanding is it places a cap on state expenditures and limits increases in per capita expenditures to the inflation rate. So, all state funded organizations, including CU have to fight over a fixed amount of $... Thus, I imagine CU's only alternative to not getting as much state money as they want (notice I wrote "want" and not "need"), is to increase tuition.
The state's education system is in the toilet because of TABOR.
The road to hell is paved...etc.