So I don't mean for this to come off offensive, or one sided, but I can almost assure you that's how it's going to come out. So buckle up and ready your asshole because this is going to be just like Taco Bell.

You want free college? I also want free college! That's crazy that we both want something like that, but I'll tell you something. I don't actually want free college because of the tax hikes that would come from it.

Taxes? More? More. Fucking. Taxes? How about, no. I don't want that. I already get about 11% ish or more taken out of my paycheck by the federal and state governments. 47 billion a year is all you need you say? Big pass. For clarification for those of you who are unfamiliar with Bernie's proposal, he was going to get most of the revenue for his free college by taxing Wall Street, but I'm not going to go down that rabbit hole. Just Google it, or whatever you kids these days use.

One of the other reasons I'm against it is because of the multitude of other opportunities that students, people and the like have. Scholarships exist, some companies will even pay for you to go to school, UPS, and Starbucks come to mind. In America you can do this wonderful thing called going into debt. It's amazing, it's the best you'll ever see. I understand people want free college but K-12 are already free and that's expensive, public institutions(community colleges, and public universities) are partially government funded already. Which brings me to my last point.

Universities, Collegiate institutions, higher education, whatever you want to call it. They are businesses. They are in the education market, to make money. Yes you get some benefit out of them, but otherwise it wouldn't be a very successful business now would it? If you want something, you have to either earn it, work for it, or pay for it. As of right now going to school is a sacrifice in two major ways: time and money, not to mention you're sacrificing the possibility to make money(time). As a consumer/student you are going to think long and hard about whether or not you should go to college. Are the sacrifices worth the reward? Do I even want to do something where I need a college degree? You might or you might not, but by making college free as a whole consumers are going to almost entirely neglect that type of thinking. They are going to go anyways, because why not; it's free. The problem with that is that we already have a large number of a people with college degrees who aren't even actively taking advantage of their degrees. Not to mention that as a nation our need for people to work in the trade sector(carpenters, plumbers, that type of thing) has never been higher because of the "go to college" mindset that has been embedded into us as Americans.

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