Should a College Education be Free?
Everybody loves paying taxes, right? Through our taxes, our children get to have a free public education to better their future, but at what point do we need to stop paying for the youth’s education. Should a college education be free for everyone? Some people believe education is a right and will benefit society, others feel college wouldn’t truly be free as colleges would still need to be funded (likely through tax dollars).
In my opinion I don’t think college should be free, I think your ability should determine your college education. When a college is free, students don’t necessarily appreciate it. In the long run, it could be more expensive on the majority if college was free through tax dollars and struggling families would have a harder time surviving with raised taxes. College is very important to someone’s future, if it is just handed out, students …show more content…
With a degree, people in poverty would have the opportunity to get better jobs. It seems like that would work, but that simply wouldn’t help because the expensive. College also takes time, people wishing to go back to college still need the money from their jobs. With time spent taking online courses or going to class, they could be working and making money. Taxes would keep people working to maintain financial stability to support themselves. The more expensive the taxes, the harder it would be for impoverished people to pay bills.
There are just so many cons to a free college education. Some students would treat their free college education poorly, just breezing by to pass because that’s all that’s required. If you just went through college now, it would most likely be cheaper than paying for it through taxes all throughout your life and the fact that the expensive new tax could further hurt struggling taxpayers just isn’t worth it. A free college education just really isn’t
Everybody loves paying taxes, right? Through our taxes, our children get to have a free public education to better their future, but at what point do we need to stop paying for the youth’s education. Should a college education be free for everyone? Some people believe education is a right and will benefit society, others feel college wouldn’t truly be free as colleges would still need to be funded (likely through tax dollars).
In my opinion I don’t think college should be free, I think your ability should determine your college education. When a college is free, students don’t necessarily appreciate it. In the long run, it could be more expensive on the majority if college was free through tax dollars and struggling families would have a harder time surviving with raised taxes. College is very important to someone’s future, if it is just handed out, students …show more content…
With a degree, people in poverty would have the opportunity to get better jobs. It seems like that would work, but that simply wouldn’t help because the expensive. College also takes time, people wishing to go back to college still need the money from their jobs. With time spent taking online courses or going to class, they could be working and making money. Taxes would keep people working to maintain financial stability to support themselves. The more expensive the taxes, the harder it would be for impoverished people to pay bills.
There are just so many cons to a free college education. Some students would treat their free college education poorly, just breezing by to pass because that’s all that’s required. If you just went through college now, it would most likely be cheaper than paying for it through taxes all throughout your life and the fact that the expensive new tax could further hurt struggling taxpayers just isn’t worth it. A free college education just really isn’t