"Get eight teams -- the top eight teams right at the end."

Which top 8 teams would those be - the ones ranked highest in the computer, or by the coaches, or by the sportswriters? Oops, maybe we need a playoff to determine who gets into the playoff. But who would get into that playoff? It's almost as if you need a whole season to... oh wait.

Just think, this jacknuts is going to be President of the United States in a couple months.

Yes, we should of course mention the non-inflation-adjusted differences because they are much larger and more impressive sounding.

Seriously, kid, I have nothing to gain here. I am not going to play the game. It's up to you whether you want to view any given issue as an opportunity to gain knowledge, or to "win." Choosing the latter, you will only be hurting yourself.

KDR, please show me the same conclusions from a non-flaming-libertarian source. The problem is that when it comes from Cato I feel like I know exactly what it will say before I've even seen it. It's the same basic reason I don't read e.g. workers rights articles from Socialist International.

KDR, I am not going to waste my time compiling a lit review for you for the same reason I would not waste my time trying to convince a colorblind person that grass is green. In the end life is too short. If you want to use my own laziness as "proof" of your "facts" then I guess you are rightest person on earth.

Please don't equate government-subsidized higher ed with government-subsidized housing. The former actually provides a net benefit. And unlike a bad mortgage, you can't jingle-mail your diploma even in a chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Of course many students in college right now are in over their heads. I guess I just don't feel like it's up to me to tell them where they should be.

KDR81

Here is an exercise to keep you honest. The library at UNLV has a lot of article databases which contain the full text of such economic studies (most of which are not available through Google). You could go to their website, type in a search for say "higher education" + "funding" + "economic impact" or somesuch and be presented with an unbiased list of studies on the matter from all kinds of different sources. This would allow you to perhaps learn about the topic in more detail rather than carrying on in blissful but vocal ignorance.

You've helped pay for these resources, so why not make use of them. You could come back here and report on your findings without having to resort to citing cato.org, npri.org, goldwaterinstitute.org, etc. You could learn, and then the readers here could learn from you. It would be a beautiful thing.

A lot of people are ill-informed about a lot of things and that's OK. It's a complicated world out there. But I don't understand why anyone would want to shy away from the truth, whatever that might be. Or misrepresent one rather marginal side of an issue as the one established truth. I'm sure that is not your intent.