Corporate welfare for University, Inc.
Every college has become a profit-making business with all the benefits of non-profit status.
Precisely. There is absolutely no interest in academia to lower the cost of college because they know they get students to go cap-in-hand to the taxpayer to help pay for increasingly bloated tuition and fees.
And all that money that lines the pockets of academia gets funneled through political contributions right back into the pockets of the Democrat Party. It's a perfect scam.