college will not solve the problems people think it will solve. Free college will also harm the taxpayers. The only way to make college free for the public as a whole is if the public pays for it as a whole which means the only real way to pay for it is to use that taxes that people pay. Free college won’t help and is not fair to the public taxpayers. Imagine a world where everything was free. It would be amazing but it’s only imagination. Causing the taxpayers to pay for college is a bad deal for everybody. “Cuomo claims that free college will cost new yorkers $163 million a year”. (source author: barclay, source year: 2017). Free college will be extremely expensive for the american taxpayers. “The Bernie Sanders free college plan would …show more content…
“With college being paid for by the government colleges wont have to worry about student leaving there school for a less expensive one” (source author: Kelly, source year: 2015). This means with college being paid for by the government and not by the students colleges wont have to lower their prices to keep the students at their school. This doesn't solve the problem of college costing too much. Most plans that have been introduced still don't cover the cost for low income students. “The plans only promise free tuition, much of the cost doesnt come from the tuition, but from food, housing, and books (source author:Palmer , source year: 2016). This means people will still leave college in debt. The fact that people would still have to leave college in debt with a free college plan in effect is crazy. Most college students come from a wealthy background. “ At age 19, only about 20% of children from the poorest 2% of families in the country attend college and for the richest 2% it's about 90%” (source author: Bruenig, source year: 2015). Most college students come from wealthy background so who is free college going to help? That's right free college will help the wealthy even though it’s meant to help the