State Colleges should be free for the students that live in that state

1) 70% - 30% argumentThe Pro thinks that since 70% of all high school students get into college, then 30% must not get into college ONLY because it is too expensive, and that is not true.............. Students dont get into college for all kinds of reasons1 - Criminal record prevented him from getting accepted2 - moved out of the country3 - no interest in going to college4 - Immediately went into the public or private sector5 - Poor planning (applying to only one college and getting rejected while having no back up options)6 - other circumstances that may prevent a high school graduate from going to college. So the 30% number the Pro is trying to hide behind is far lower than what it really is. "your 70% of high school graduates getting into college is skewed. “Most recently, in 2009, the immediate college enrollment rate of high school completers from low-income families was 55 percent, 29 percentage points lower than the rate of high school completers from high-income families (84 percent).”....How is my data skewed? I showed four different sources showing how well over half of high school students get into college and how that number is rising, you took one article from 2009 to show how even low income families can send their kids to college half the time....The Pro argued that " Education should not be for the "privileged" few who can afford it" and I showed how over 2/3rds of the US can send their kids to college and that percentage is growing. 2) Economy related to college degreeYes there is favoritism for college degrees when companies are HIRING people. When people get FIRED though people who have college degrees or not get fired just the same. That being said trying to boost college degree graduates to improve the economy might be a bad idea if during recessions they get fired just as much as non-college graduates do.3) Oil companies? What?"My comment regarding the billions of dollars given to oil companies stems from the fact that the government is not managing our tax money as well as can be done"So even though you admit the government cant spend our tax dollars wisely you still want to create an ungodly tax burden to give the government billions of dollars in the HOPE that they spend it on education......."Yes there would be tax increases of some sort, but far from the 60% rate Con suggested."Do you have any evidence to suggest what the tax rate is? " I don’t have the specifics of a program to fund this"So then you dont.... Allow me to explain how much taxes would rise. >:)The number of people entering and are already in college is 18.2 Million people.... The average cost of college is $25,000 a year (as shown in round 3)So lets do some math, $25,000 average tuition for a year (and rising) X 18,200,000 Million people in college a year (and rising) = How much money?$455,000,000,000!!!!!!!!!! 455 BILLION (and rising)A little more number crunching and we're almost done90,000,000 taxed at a rate of 35% yields a total tax income of 1,200,000,000,000 (1% yields 34,000,000,000)http://gregdekspeaks.wordpress.com...http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com...So to cover the additional 455 billion (and rising), taxes would have to be raised from 35% to how much?increasing taxes 1% yields an additional 34 Billion, 455 (and rising)/ 34 = 13.4 (and rising)For Americans to foot the additional burden taxes would have to raised 13.4% from 35% SO NEW TAX RATE WOULD BE ABOUT 48.5% AS A STARTSo its not 60 like i feared it would be, but its pretty close at 48% (which is like 50%)But Wait There's MoreCollege rates are rising, number of students going to college is rising, meaning that 455 Billion number is only going to grow larger, meaning that 48% would be the STARTING POINT for taxes to be raised (its gonna go up year after year). Another scary thought, if colleges were free, more people would attend bith now and in the future, so that number isnt going to go up slowly, it will haul a** up to 60% sooner or later. "The current system is not working as it should and needs to be adjusted to open the opportunities of higher education to those who currently cannot afford it."Which system sounds better, the one where 70% get in and people pay taxes at 35%, or the one where a little more than 70% gets in at a tax rate of 48% which would rise? "A fair process to generate the necessary funding can be developed and implemented providing the lower income students with the opportunity to attend"I dont think raising taxes by 15% counts as fair to the 90,000,000 taxpayers to help less than 8 million people TRY to go to college....(70% got in, which is 18.2 million, the percentage who didnt get in is 18.2 million / 0.7 = 26 million - 18.2 million = 7.8 million.)(Keep in mind that 7.8 million that didnt get in might not have gotten in for many reasons, high tuition being only one option, so the true number must be less than 7.8 million)If you skipped my entire argument and you are only reading this part allow me to summarize1) Funding this program would cause taxes to be at 50% and would rise quickly2) Even the Pro believes that the government used the income it makes unwisely, so all these taxes might not even go into education3) the Pro thinks its fair to make 90,000,000 pay a sh*t ton of money to help < 8 million people try to go to collegeIll end here