Currently in society, trying to move forward in the professional world without a college degree is seemingly impossible. Jobs and careers that were attainable with high school diplomas are now typically mostly filled with people who hold some sort of higher education and that has just become the norm in society. Those who had jobs that were held in the past by people who did have degrees now require masters or some sort of doctorate. Everything has become more competitive and college education has basically become a necessity. Ever since this has become the case the question of free college tuition has been tossed around. While free college seems like a great idea and the answer to America's current problems, it would not be. As a current college student, losing the cost of school would be a huge weight lifted off mine and my family's shoulders but it just does not make sense nor even seem remotely possible. Also, ever since Bernie Sanders' launched his presidential candidacy using a free public college tuition platform, a more realistic light has come about in American's eyes because if he wins, it is so a possibility. After further research on the topic and European countries who currently use a free university tuition along with living everyday as a paying college student, this topic has become of much interest to myself.

In Kevin James article, "Bernie's Bad College Idea," the negative effects of free college tuition are pointed out. Those being, a huge economy struggle since ultimately the government would be paying everyone's tuition, even for the families who can afford it. Not having scholarships and financial aid would also take away from students having their choice in the university they attend because only public schools would be free so this would kill private institutes. Allowing more students to attend school would ultimately lessen the value of the education as well and bring in lesser qualified professors and thus does not help with people already struggling to find jobs with a college degree. James shoots to bring up every point that Bernie claims would be fixed with free tuition and counteracts with why it would not work. He speaks of his work with other researchers and writers on the same topic which adds other opinions. Although this article is bias since it is completely one sided since he knocks down every one of Bernie's points, Kevin James is a research fellow who focuses on higher education cost and financing, so his back ground is very appropriate for this topic.

The Business Insiders article focuses on Denmark's already implemented free college program. For a long time Denmark has offered students free tuition and over time it has not proven worthwhile. The economy is seriously hurting from doing this and the results of the students is not making up for it. Many students are picking majors they would enjoy or something easy rather than majoring in something that have career opportunities available upon graduation. This article helps to prove that the free college tuition idea is no good because it shows how poorly it has helped Denmark. It also shows how it effects the students themselves in their motivations and workloads when they are no longer forking over their own money. Although this article came from the Business Insider, it is originally from a global news agency, AFP. Since this article focuses on another country it is appropriate that it comes from a global source to take away bias and since it is an informative article it helps to present the cold hard facts.

Similar to James article, Christopher Lane presents the negative effects of free tuition and shoots down Sander's in his article, "College doesn't need to be free." Lane proves and explains Sanders' plan has more negative side effects than it would do well for America. It starts with putting the economy in a bad state. Also, he explains how students would flood the system making an education less valuable and lower quality because more, under qualified professors would need to be hired to account for all the students. Lastly, he goes on to explain how it would lead to students trying less because they have no worry of wasting their parents money nor would their parent be all over them about doing well because it is not their money. This source helps to reaffirm the original claims from the primary source while adding some more insight and different effects to free tuition. Lane is a published editorial writer who focuses in economic policy, much of which this plan would effect.

Overall, this research question presents a strong argument because there are very strong opinions coming from both sides of the table, especially currently in America in the heat of the presidential debate. For the most part all three of the sources work together to prove how free college tuition is not the right move for this country. The article that focuses on Denmark really drives the main point home since it is an informative article that blatantly shows the statistics of what free tuition has done to the country. So far the sources agree with my perspective of the topic, but I do want to find some opposition articles to include that I can later shoot down with the other sources to reinforce the negative effect and how they would be worse that what America is currently enduring with people paying for school. I think if I added a little more specificity to the topic, like focused on the economy or the psychological aspect it would have on kids and how hard they tried it could make the paper more specific, but from my current research and sources it seems to be too hard to find enough sources. 
