Michaelangelo+Garcia+persuasive+essay

Michaelangelo Garcia III 3-29-12

__Topic__: Why a college education should be free

I am in favor of College being free for the following three reasons: - Considering all the taxes that the working class pays; College should be free, as New York is the highest paying state in terms of taxes. - Society would be better off with the majority of the people being educated ,it would help our economy. - Deter disfunction behavior such as crime. Educated people have a careers and do not need to rob, steal and commit crime to support themselfs.

New York is the highest tax paying state considered to other states. New York taxes are utilized to pay for social security, welfare benefits for others, however, if a working person should be subjected to 33% o f taxes from their wages, then such taxes should be used to provide free tuition for people seeking an education. If our country can utilize tax paying funds for bridges being rebuilt, and for welfare programs, then it can include education. Critics would argue that taxes would need to increase for this to happen, as the taxes paid are not sufficient by everyone. This can be disputed that politics in the last election proposed to increase taxes, however it effected the wealthy and those earning over $150,000 per year.

A free college education would also help our economy, as educated people would be able to contribute to the tax pool and also be able to find above-average earning salaries. Their would be more career oriented people rather than hourly wage earners. By having more people in the workforce our economy grows. Critics may not be able to dispute this as our economy has suffered, a perfect example of America depending on blue collar workforce in Detroit were devastated by Ford's collapse. Perhaps if the majority of the people were educated, such an impact would not have been made.

Having a society with more college educated people decreases crime, especially petty crimes. Statistics have shown that the majority of people who commit crimes are uneducated. Society as a whole would benefit; however that is not to say that educated people do not commit crimes. Petty crimes in specific would be such a high statistic. A counter argument would be that educated people commit crimes to a bigger magnitude, for example, in the Bernie Madoff case. Critics would say that education would not make a diference in crime, I disagree. You will always have a bad apple amongst a group of good ones.

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