@dodgers3222 You can’t keep professor & staff salaries the same every year. Like yours, their living expenses go up periodically as food, rent, utilities, and other prices in society rise. So, how do you keep tuition constant without raising taxes on CA residents and businesses to offset the increasing unversity operating costs each year?
If more people in CA actually paid taxes and full tuition, then maybe the CA universities would have more operating money and could keep tuition at a steady rate. But, now, CA is buried under the financial burden of providing free services to a large, poor immigrant population, many of whom get paid in cash if they work, and they don’t pay taxes. On the other hand, I know businesses and individuals that have left CA because their taxes were too high.
I love CA and am a taxpayer there, but I feel like its generosity has made it a much poorer state, and the public schools are suffering. Someone has to fund the costs to operate the schools. OOS students and full-pay CA students are paying for the rest with increased tuition each year.