Yesterday I blogged about California’s seemingly never-ending budget crisis. Here’s a consequence of the crisis: The Wall Street Journal’s Stu Woo reports that California will raise student “fees” (basically tuition) for the 230,000 students in its university system by 32 percent. This is meant to cover a more than one-billion budget deficit the world renowned Cali public university system faces after massive state education cuts.

Defenders of the 32 percent fee hike claim that by having such a severe across the board increase, California will be able to still give scholarships to low-income students. Whether this specific fee hike is good policy or not, the real culprit is a state legislature that passed a phantom balanced budget this summer and is unwilling to agree on any rational tax-and-spending policy.

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