Argumentative Essay: Should There Be College Free?

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Good things in life don’t come easy or free. People are told from their youth to work hard for the things they want. With that being said, college should be no different. We should continue as a country to uphold our future generations to the belief of earning a college education instead of getting it for free, regardless of peoples financial backgrounds. The U.S. government college system works and changing it to make college free would draw in many questionable aspects in every way possible. In my view, endorsing free college would not be beneficial to anyone in long run.
One red flag about making college free in the United States is the decrease in a quality education that will be a result. Bernie Sanders, a democrat that is pro free college,
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To include financial aid, scholarships, grants, and student loans. Scholarships are a very common way to receive financial assistance and it is available to all students that give forth effort to meet the criteria. Some are as simple as writing an essay. Following that, there are grants available to students whose income is $50,000 or less. Needless to say, that should be any student that just moved out their parents’ house working a part time job. It probably won’t get students into an ivy league but neither will free college.
Honestly, who would really benefit from “free college”? Seems like the pro free college candidates wants us to believe they will be helping the lower class but, speaking from experience, in reality low income families do not lose sleep over if their children will be able to go to college. There are benefits for them available and most Americans are aware. The middle to high class families are the ones that will no longer have to pay for college.
I do believe the system needs work, and even for higher class families, college is overpriced but “free college” is not the answer. There is no elevator to success, we must take the stairs. There are things that should be taken into serious consideration before the U.S. government decides to prioritize providing free