[adrusi]

    > For example, the military’s budget is about 1.8 times
    > higher today than it was in 1960, while legislative
    > appropriations to higher education are more than 10
    > times higher.

This isn't the relevant statistic. I'm going to guess that the size of the national student body has increased since 1960, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was by more than a factor of ten.

I'm not saying that therefore lack of government spending is the cause of high tuition, but this article dismisses it too quickly.

[nulltype]

Well the article addresses that point like a paragraph or two later.