Calling a college education “free” is a contradiction because nothing in life is truly free. Someone will be responsible for paying for this education, even if they are not the one receiving it. To support this flow of hopeful students, the U.S. government will have to heavily tax the working and upper classes. Taxes will have to be inflated to offset the cost of college, and in some cases they could become scandalously high. If the upper class is constantly taxed, what stops them from moving down a class? What stops the middle class from becoming the lower class? In an extreme situation, if the middle and upper classes were constantly taxed, there would be a risk of creating a larger class divide problem. Maybe the plan to fund college starts by taxing only the rich. In America there are approximately 324 million people. This number increases every eight seconds, so there is a constant increase in the number of citizens. Imagine if half that number decided to go to college. College education is free for them, but their tuition is paid by the upper class. Today, average tuition is about $9,410 for in-state universities and about $32,405 for out-of-state students. This amount of money, per student, is funded by taxes on upperclassmen. Taxes are raised more and more to pay for all these students until they can't be raised anymore. The superior