> We've seen a massive increase in tuition costs, far beyond inflation in recent years. Such is the result of artificially boosting demand for college on the backs of the taxpayer.

There's nothing recent about it. Tuition has been rising far beyond on inflation going back to at least the 1920s. Take Stanford. For each decade here is the factor tuition actually rose from that of 10 years earlier divided by the factor it would have risen by if it had only risen by the inflation rate:

  1930 3.0
  1940 1.4
  1950 1.1
  1960 1.2
  1970 1.8
  1980 1.2
  1990 1.4
  2000 1.3
  2010 1.3

I've only worked this out for Stanford because they were the only school I was able to find tuition information on going back that far. It would be interesting to see numbers for other schools.