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by muzz 4089 days ago
Yes this article, and many others, employ the "sticker price fallacy" to advance their claims.

As David Leonhardt put it, tuition is like sticker prices at Joseph A. Bank "If you take Joseph A. Bank’s sticker prices literally, you don’t understand its business."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/29/upshot/how-the-government-...