It would be rich if the data in the article in no way supported your rant.
Just like the evangelicals see God in every leaf and water drop, the neoclassicalists will read any evidence and always see the same conclusion.
The article doesn't blame government at all. It's way more nuanced but ideologues will only see what they want to see.
The data linked above suggests Catholic schools are the most affordable. Priors confirmed - theocracy is the only way forward.
Catholic schools are financially structured in rather unique ways. They're controlled by clerical orders which are technically financially independent from the Vatican, kind of like a franchise.
Together, the institutions under a specific clerical order operate collectively kind of like a cooperative so money flows around differently than most schools.
Weirdly, schools that used to be but no longer are religious seem to now be some of the most expensive. For instance, Tufts, USC and Yale.
The rise in tuition is because college has been increasingly seen as a personal, private transaction and not as a social good.
This reframing of the institution as a market based services purchase is the rationale for the policies that have caused all the other problems
Catholic schools might also be cheaper because these clerical orders are ostensibly tasked with social welfare so they are still partially operating under the old model before the Milton Friedman mind virus.
Monks around the world are telling themselves "THIS GUY GETS IT". The institution misses its alma mater :(
It's pure ideology. They have the exact same answer every time regardless of circumstances, like some radical evangelical responding to every question with "god".
It's not economics, ration, reason or anything like that - it's pure orthodoxy and blind dogmatism. They're Hayekian tankies.