Regardless of your feelings about tax dollars, I hate to break it to you, but the UC system hasn’t being subsidized by California in decades. Something like 15-20% comes from the state.
Maybe that’s part of the problem.
Maybe that’s part of the problem.
https://www.ucop.edu/operating-budget/_files/rbudget/2022-23...
The overall budget gets weird with medical centers and something called “Sales and Support”, but in any case California tax payers put in more money then students. I don’t think that’s a problem, but it’s definitely subsidized.