Aren't paying for externalities like these like this exactly why we pay taxes to state government? Why is the school paying for it's own air filtration? This

Aren't paying for externalities like these like this exactly why we pay taxes to state government? Why is the school paying for it's own air filtration? This sounds like a problem of ineffective government, not highways and pollution. It's the state's job to use tax money to smooth out these kind of issues in a roughly equitable manner.