Why do people want US college to be free?

I don't think it should be free.You are right. We hear other countries offering free college classes but chances are that they cut a lot stuff to make it affordable. I think peopel want it to be free because it is so expensive these days and they don't have a lot of money. When they do graduate then they are in a lot of debt. I think a good plan (which i am currently doing) is attend a 2-year Community College which is a lot cheaper but you still get good professors and learn a lot. But I found out that the community college i go to offers a 3 and 1 program to a great business school (my major is Marketing so it works out). This means that I will go to this cheaper community college for 3 years then transfer and go to this nice colllege that is more expensive but only for one year. I will still get a Bachelor's degree from that nice college and say i graduated from it. And it saves me money. It is like $22,000 a year so instead of going 4 years and spending like +$80,000, i spend the the amount of 3 years at a community college and only 1 year at the expensive but nice college.

I think that college should cost money but in my opinion, there needs to be something done about the prices of tuition, loans, and books. I am not saying htat it should cost only like a couple hundred dollars but i think there needs to be a way to cut a little bit of the cost without cutting jobs or programs.

First, understand that a massive amount of government money already goes to universities in the US and it comes with plenty of strings attached. It's just that the money comes in the form of massively subsidized student loans instead of direct funding.

Second, US universities are far too expensive. The current system has the effect of dooming college graduates to debts the size of a small mortgage. Those debts undermine the usefulness of university education: they discourage people from poor backgrounds from going to university at all; they create a permanent burden on the graduates who are not highly successful.

Third, it's a mistake to deride education in other countries merely because it is free or cheap. I went to one of the best universities in the world and paid less than $2,000 per year for the privilege. Unless you can actually demonstrate that those universities provide a worse education then you're merely falling victim to the home bias.

Fourth, if you want a "really awesome" college, then you should probably be free to spend your own money getting that. But there are plenty of people who just want a decent education that they're not going to be paying off for the rest of their lives. Why should your interest in sports and large dorms prevail over their interest in a good education. Education is, after all, what universities are primarily for. Sports and dorms and so on are extras.

It's too expensive, and other add on products to be able to follow class instructions just make it worse. But it's still a lot more than that, also when I was in college the dorms weren't comfortable or spacious (not all dorms in the US are that great). Sports, if it's like Olympics, you don't always need college for that but for fun you can just find that somewhere else without school.

The people who want it free are the ones who have no money. Most people who have little money aren't geniuses. They most likely don't realize the effect.

We want it to be reasonably priced. The cost has grown to be outrageous.