I&#x27;m ignoring the portions of your comments that don&#x27;t pertain to my question.<p>You seem to be under the impression that I&#x27;m taking a position on many things, when I&#x27;m not. At most I&#x27;m taking a single position: a tax exemption is in practice no different from a subsidy. And even that I&#x27;m putting in the form of a question because I admit I might be missing something.<p>Beyond that, I&#x27;m not making any statements. Policy changes? Treatment of public universities? The potential costs or benefits of taking away Harvard&#x27;s status? All completely irrelevant to what I asked, and as far as I can tell based on the idea that I asked the question as some sort of submarine argument against tax breaks for Harvard and against private institutions of higher education, or something.