Hmm...State support for UW Madison was 43% in 1974 and is 15% in 2018. I lived through Scott Walker's $250M from the University of Wisconsin system, so no, I don't really wonder about this. 1/
The pattern is that state cuts funding for higher ed in times of recession and then never make it whole again. cbpp.org/research/state… 2/ 
Walker refused to allow the public universities to increase tuition while he was imposing draconian cuts. In a competitive environment, this hurt the quality of the UW system. Regaining that quality likely means bigger tuition increases in the future. 3/
Please read these charts: Because of policies that Walker promoted as a legislator and implemented as Governor, WI became a state that spent more on locking people up than for higher ed. despite the enormous economic benefits that higher ed spending provides. 4/
Its fair to say there is a larger debate on the cost of higher education here (and that my priors are to blame state cuts). My main point is that Walker has no business commenting on higher ed given the hatchet job he took to UW System. 5/
