This criticism is about my classmate post " Free college education, more affordable education?" .
First, I think this is a very nice idea and I think every student would love to discuss that. Why? Because besides studying hard, we don’t have to worry about tuition, don’t have to worry about figuring out a job while we are handling too much pressure from class, from deadlines and school projects. Paying tuition for college, it’s not only the responsibility for students, but sometimes, it is also the responsibility of parents who have kids go to college and they make good income. According to Chau’s article, the college tuition fee is not cheap at all. I agree with that.
I go to both ACC and Texas State University, and on average, my tuition fee is always over $10,000 per year. This amount deducts my Texas Grant and Federal Grant money, I support to pay out of pocket $5,000 per year. However, I agree to submit the subsidized loan, not the unsubsidized one to cover the rest of my tuition fee. I’ve been in college for 4 years, my student loan will be around $20,000 after I graduate and I don’t have to pay it back after 6 months when I graduate. Absolutely, I can make a payment plan for my student loan and I am confident that my job in the future can help me to get this loan pay off soon. To myself, the tuition fee is not really a big problem while I am in college and my parents didn’t pay for me any pennies. I am from Vietnam and in this country, I don’t think the government supports their students as the US government. At least, in the US, the government still supports college students by granting them a part of the tuition fee and offering them the loan to pay in advance. I already appreciate it. Moreover, I came to the US when I was 19 so I didn’t have a chance to go to elementary or high school here. But I appreciate the US government for granting all the kids under 18 to go to school, get their basic general knowledge in public school.
Other countries offer free college and I think the US starts doing that in some certain states based on Chau’s information. However, it is difficult to offer free college for the whole country. Moreover, our country has too many people and people sometimes demand too many benefits from the government.
Talking about the solution how do we offer free college? I think most the colleges and some sponsors of college do offer the scholarship. I think it is a very great way to reward our studying hard students. And, if students are serious to study and want to help themselves for tuition fee, trying their best to get the scholarships are very reasonable. The proposing solution about raising tax for millionaires or billionaires is kind of hard for these people. Why? Because I think at the current tax rate, I think the US government did charge them lots of tax already. I know they are rich people, but they also used to study hard and work really hard every day to be a millionaire or billionaire.
In conclusion, I think it is reasonable for the US government may cut down the tuition fee standards to colleges or universities but offering free college for the whole country is very challenging for the government.
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