Persuasive Essay On Student Debt

introduction
The US has 1.2 trillions of dollars worth of student loan debt . High national debt has many consequences including slowing economic growth and rising interest rates. many think that making college education free will make it pricy for taxpayers but actually it won't if instead of adding more taxes to everybody else, we instead just tax the multibillion dollar companies that are given countless tax breaks every year and who are also responsible for the economic crash in the first place. Even if we did have to pay for it with our taxes then we could still do it easily. According to Jordan Weissmann It would only cost about 60 billion dollars extra money that the us government doesn't already spend on education. If you take the over 3 hundred million people that live in the us today and divide that by the amount needed it would really only be $17 a month. I every person in america decides to instead of eating at some cheep retrount that will make you fat anyways spend that 17 dollars on education to allow an entire generation of potential geniuses who would otherwise be forced into some minimum wage job get an education without having mountains of debt.

statement of background
There are millions of hardworking americans who works over 40 hour work weeks and still need government assistance because they don't have enough money. This is because the only way to get a college education leading you to successful jobs is to pay tens of thousands of dollars of tuition or get in crippling financial debt which how can someone who can barely pay for themselves, pay for that expensive tuition. The only people who can afford the huge college tuition are people who are already rich. This is a major example of how the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting