Governments should offer a free university education to any student who has been admitted to a university but who cannot afford the tuition.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
The purpose of the government is to serve, protect, and lead the nation. It should be lean, efficient, and serve all tax payers equally. Bloating the already large and over-burdened system will only create more trouble in the long run. By implementing a system that provides a “free” service paid for ultimately by the tax payers to specific individuals and not to others is not only unfair, but boarders on classism. The government should not provide free tuition based on the students ability to afford it.
Creating a social welfare type system to cover university tuition would end up costing the taxes payers more than just the price per credit hour dictated by the school. If the government is going to step in and cover costs, they are going to have to end up covering all university related costs such as, room and board, lab fee’s, parking fee’s, books, school supplies, and possibly even food if the school accounts for dinning costs as a school fee. In addition to these unaccounted for factors, a new government department will need to be set up to facilitate this process. Someone will have to mediate between the schools, students, and treasury where these funds will come from, further increasing the cost to the tax payers yet again. The average tuition cost of ten to twenty thousand per student per degree could easily be compounded into well over one hundred thousand dollars of tax payer money per student with these additional cost factors. Even more so if the student is attending a private university with higher tuition costs.
In addition to these compounded costs of education, how would the government decide on who qualifies for the free tuition service? If it is based on income a line would need to be drawn to dictate who would and wouldn’t be able to receive this service. For example, if the free tuition was only provided to those making under twenty thousand dollars per year, then it would handicap those making slight over that. The student with a twenty one thousand dollar per year income now must indebt themselves for ten to thirty years to cover their school cost while their peers who only slightly less than them get by on a free ride. This could create new inequalities across the different income classes in addition to the one’s that already exist today. The government would be taking funds from all tax payer’s then only giving the benefit to one group vs distributing it to all citizens.
The second and third order effects of this policy would be too great to implement successfully. There are too many unaccounted for costs and effects for this policy to be a benefit to the tax payers. The governments duty is to serve all of it’s citizen’s equally and effectively and providing free tuition based on income does not even come close to fulfilling that duty.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 276, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
... By implementing a system that provides a 'free' service paid for ultim...
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Line 1, column 489, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...d not provide free tuition based on the students ability to afford it. Creating a so...
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Line 5, column 434, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: twenty-one
...ng slight over that. The student with a twenty one thousand dollar per year income now mus...
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Line 7, column 205, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'governments'' or 'government's'?
Suggestion: governments'; government's
... to be a benefit to the tax payers. The governments duty is to serve all of it’s citizen’s ...
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Line 7, column 238, Rule ID: ABOUT_ITS_NN[25]
Message: Did you mean 'of its citizen'?
Suggestion: of its citizen
...s. The governments duty is to serve all of it’s citizen’s equally and effectively and providing...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'if', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'third', 'well', 'while', 'for example', 'in addition', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.256603773585 0.238963963785 107% => OK
Verbs: 0.156603773585 0.154291517835 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0603773584906 0.0886310499679 68% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0679245283019 0.0506014161523 134% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0188679245283 0.0449626384858 42% => OK
Prepositions: 0.105660377358 0.123526278965 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0547169811321 0.0379742944744 144% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.5417972658 2.82910677849 90% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0547169811321 0.0316879551592 173% => OK
Particles: 0.00566037735849 0.0014075125626 402% => Less particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.107547169811 0.0950106342287 113% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0301886792453 0.0245489744465 123% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0132075471698 0.0157978311181 84% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2847.0 2899.98275862 98% => OK
No of words: 485.0 478.390804598 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.87010309278 6.0591788892 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69283662038 4.65681771538 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.350515463918 0.369966551584 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.247422680412 0.285172536893 87% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.154639175258 0.207245337619 75% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0886597938144 0.136322040163 65% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5417972658 2.82910677849 90% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 234.298850575 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490721649485 0.492565540709 100% => OK
Word variations: 56.7581826192 56.8184620615 100% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 21.1264367816 95% => OK
Sentence length: 24.25 23.7468607788 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3137873841 62.0618507366 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.35 143.81877709 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.25 23.7468607788 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.55 0.728815259664 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.87931034483 82% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.71264367816 65% => OK
Readability: 48.9922680412 52.2641144681 94% => OK
Elegance: 1.71317829457 1.64547068916 104% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.372660520464 0.39480681544 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.129489993981 0.11556216369 112% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0658412140496 0.0736162880345 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.525197569365 0.531340600358 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.0948369676032 0.15197228837 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.160486266699 0.158818324754 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0565482542792 0.0851127212816 66% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.441648071746 0.388921930462 114% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0388836167872 0.0677916285025 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.274133395758 0.28015025965 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0187034810794 0.0610219844235 31% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.8591954023 129% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.30459770115 38% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.96264367816 81% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 8.10632183908 136% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 3.93390804598 25% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 4.0 3.04597701149 131% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 15.0862068966 106% => OK
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay E-rater: 4.5 Out of 6