Why Young People Shouldn't Be Clamoring For Free Tuition

Let's say Bernie Sanders gets elected. He completes his free college plan. Everyone gets their degrees. What happens next?

The same thing that has been happening for years. Young people graduate from college and they don’t find a good job. Or they go and find a job that they could have gotten four, five, six years earlier without their degree.

In the 2010 US Census, only 62 percent of people with degrees had a job that required one, and 27 percent of people had jobs associated with their degree’s major.

Now imagine if everyone could go to college. After high school, everyone just heads off to get their degrees. I’m sure you can imagine the outcome. The value of a college degree would drop to an all-time low. People that have paid tens of thousands of dollars for their degrees will suddenly be matched by someone that paid nothing for the same.

Bernie Sander’s plan to lower student loan interest rates and to create better opportunities for low-income people wanting to attend college are in my opinion great ideas, but making the degree entirely free would eliminate the use for it (in our society) almost completely.

For Sander’s plan to work, the education received at college should be more important than the piece of paper they hand you afterwards.