That said, this is nothing new. SUNY tuition was free for NY residents up until 1971. Which just happened to be the year I started college. Heh.
“Free” almost always means that someone other than the recipient is paying the bill.
Anyone thinking they are going to get something for nothing is not capable of being educated. Taxes will have to go up. The added cost will be passed on to the consumers. The same morons attempting to be educated will start crying because their cost of living escalated.