So says Think Progress, at least.

Lower Saxony recently became the last state in Germany to reduce the price of higher education to zero, making college universal and completely subsidized throughout the country. “It is the core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge,” said one politician there.

The writer of the article linked above says that in the U.S., with the right federal budget adjustments, the “cost of attending public universities could easily be brought down to zero.”

That’s certainly an extraordinary claim. Not only could the price be zero, but also the cost? How would that work?

Only in dreams.