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I believe that the government should make higher education available to every
young person that qualifies due to their study and good grades and are willing
to repay their debt once their education is over. Some people would disagree,
stating that it is not the governments responsibility to put people through
college. They also may argue that the added eight billion dollars it would cost
a year is too much. However, the people who received these benefits could pay
back the government by their choice of servicing society through child-care,
police, military, health care, and other jobs. A Core Democratic Value that
supports my view is common good. The national service trust fund is a good
example of the government undertaking programs to benefit the common good. Tax
money would be used to pay for peoples tuition's into college. Later those
individuals would repay the government by two years of low paying community
service. Evidence of data that supports my position from the excerpt is that
America has provided a trust fund before.
The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of
1944 helped to educate an entire generation of people, and 95 percent of its
beneficiaries. This wide success helped prove that an investment in citizens'
education is very useful to all parties involved. This position can also be
supported with prior knowledge, as I know that people who go to college are more
likely to get a high paying job. A public value to people receiving higher
education is that people who go to college are less likely to have reliance on
government financial supports later in life.
Another reason that this would
benefit the government is that after college, the individual would have to take
a low paying national service job. In conclusion, I find that this trust fund
would not only benefit the people that received the funding but also the
government as well. The government would gain because after the students have
completed college they would receive a worker at a low price. The person
receiving the fund would receive a higher education, but later would have to
repay society by working for low wages in a government job. So, when all is
done, most of the costs, both monetary and otherwise, are balanced out.
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