Cowen, the post's author, considers many possible angles and outcomes of such a policy, and specifically addresses its relationship to your preferred model: a f

Cowen, the post's author, considers many possible angles and outcomes of such a policy, and specifically addresses its relationship to your preferred model: a free, taxes-paid higher education. He's willing to see the Oregon proposal tried to observe the results, but seems doubtful it will work well, for reasons nearly opposite to your objections: he sees it as likely subsidizing student and educator errors via adverse selection and other malincentives. Against that, you provide a series of emotional poses – "cringe" "cry" "joke" "bullshit" "bullshit alarms" – and total confidence that this isn't even worth trying. That doesn't add any new information other than, "darklajid doesn't like the headline". (Is darklajid a name I should recognize on educational and public policy issues?)