Topic > Community Colleges: Should community colleges be free?

which helps pay some or all of their tuition depending on their qualification for aid. It would be better if this aid was given to all students who will pay their tuition making community college automatically tuition-free. Your eligibility for aid should not depend on your income. As we all know, most students who attend community colleges come from low-income families. In 2014-2015, undergraduate and graduate students received $238.9 billion in grants from all sources, FWS, federal loans and credits, and federal tax deductions,” according to the college board. This shows that already the government is paying nearly 75% of the tuition of most community college students through aid. It would be better if the government paid 100% of the tuition of all community colleges through the aid the government provides to the college, and qualifying to get the aid should not depend on the students' income tax. The obvious argument against my reason is that people will say that if the government funds free community colleges it will increase taxpayers' taxes. If taxes increase, they will be used to fund community colleges for free, which will later benefit the country, because the government is already misusing taxpayer money for useless things that benefit no one. As has been said, education is the key to better