Argumentative Essay: Should College Be Free?

Many people would agree that college should be free because not everyone has the money to pay for one semester or a whole school year. In my opinion, college shouldn’t be free but at least cheaper than ruining a student’s life. “College graduates from the class of 2014 owe an average of nearly $29,000 in student loan debt.” According to Tyler Kingkade from the Huffington Post in “Average Student Debt Rises For Class Of 2014.” This is one of the top reasons why students decide to skip college and start work right away. I don’t believe college should be free because the average american can be seen as lazy and uncaring when it comes to schooling especially free schooling. It’s given the idea that if it’s free, it isn’t important and it’s taken for granted. With the price on college people are able to take college seriously because they have to pay for it. Not only that if college wasn’t free, taxpayers would have a skyrocketing price to pay for their taxes.
But rather than simply using our resources to maintain a cheap public system, we spill them into a fairly wasteful and expensive private sector.” According to Jordan Weissmann from the Atlantic in “Here’s Exactly How Much the Government Would Have to Make Public College Tuition-Free.” I agree with this quote because it’s true that government would rather use money for business instead of schools. The government would rather spend it on hover boards, large hotel spine looking things that go underwater, and transgender operations for jail mates who want to become women instead of staying a men. It’s ridiculous what the government would rather spend their money on. However if college were to be free it would cost the U.S 62.2 billion