Yes but both are funded w/ federal trust funds financed by payroll taxes. Until we lock in such permanent revenue streams for public colleges/universities, eliminating tuition is just a recipe for more politically-motivated budget/program cuts as in WI:

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1199790002273603584 https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1200466857947471874
It would be great to go back to the pre-1975 world of essentially no tuition, for reasons @rortybomb highlights here in this excellent thread: https://twitter.com/rortybomb/status/1200459507979227136?s=20. But we need to wrestle w/ the realities of the economics & politics of higher ed financing as they are in 2019
And those involve difficult tradeoffs, as we've seen here in Wisconsin: https://twitter.com/mcopelov/status/1176916150472626177?s=20
In other words, as with ambitious universal health care plans, moving toward free college is going to require substantially more tax revenue. Progressives need not only to defend the merits of the programs, but also the merits of higher taxes to fund public works & public goods.
This is the prerequisite to literally every progressive policy proposal. Which is why I remain puzzled by this: https://twitter.com/mcopelov/status/1188844922570465282?s=20
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