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Free college means higher enrollment, less committed students, and much higher drop out rates (I mean it's much easier to drop a class you didn't pay for, right?). This will greatly diminish the already questionable quality of education. The schools will have to hire more faculty to keep up with the influx of students. More tax money will have to be appropriated to pay for the increasing cost of a free education. Corners start getting cut by universities as budgets start to get whittled down, and the overall quality of output drops so significantly employers no longer look favorably upon a college graduate for open positions.
I always looked at college as something that wasn't for everyone, and something you had to make a strong commitment towards. So many times I've heard students say, and I've said it myself, "if I didn't already pay for this class, I would drop it!" -- take away the admission fee, and what's to stop them? Give anything away free, and people will expect more. Make them pay, and they'll appreciate what they have.
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