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do you think education should be free for everyone and payed for by taxes?

do you think education should be free for everyone and payed for by taxes? why do you think it is or is not a good idea?
I think education should not be free, or paid by taxes, I pay taxes, I don't want to be paying for people who go through college and take advantage for it, there are tons of people who's parents are rich and they go through college barley passing just drinking and having fun, not learning anything. I also think that its not fair to pay for other peoples education passed high school. Having free college devalues education. Im not against having it cheaper but if it was completely free it would become a useless way to judge who should get the job. professors already don't make a lot many of them have to teach at multiple colleges because they do not get hired as full professor at any of them.there has been a move away from full professors and more adjunct professors. If we made education free professors would earn less because the government would not be able to fund all the salaries at this level.they should raise teacher salaries as it is. I think that if you make higher education free then you would have to make housing free and food free. Higher education is not a necessity so I do not think it should be free. people who think that tell me that i just want people to be stupid or that it will be cheaper. I dont want people to be stupid if they want to go to college they should start earning some money and save it to go to college, i do think it should be cheaper to go to college. it would make it more expensive if it was paid for by taxes because more people would be going to college. I know people at my college who kept on going to college to avoid life. they dont want to have to work and their parents are willing to pay for it. If it was all paid for by taxes the tax payer doesn't have the option of not allowing this person to go to school. it should be a privilege to go to college. I would also be paying for all the amenities colleges have like football fields and gyms, right now i only pay for the ones i can use the college i go to, if it was taken out of taxes people are paying for things they do not get to use.
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I think college should be cheaper..
There was a time when a person could pay for state university tuition by working a partime job..
Make students loans dischargeable in bankruptcy and tuition costs would fall dramatically....
Put a time limit on it, say seven years from graduation...