Again, an argument nobody is making. Nobody argued that the US doesn’t spend money on healthcare, education or housing. The disconnect is in how/where that mone

Again, an argument nobody is making. Nobody argued that the US doesn’t spend money on healthcare, education or housing. The disconnect is in how/where that money is spent. In healthcare, for example, we have created specific socialized programs for each at-risk population: VA for veterans, Medicare for the elderly, Medicaid for the poor, and CHIP for children. Meanwhile, everyone else is forced to enter the private marketplace. In education, we’ve drawn lines which make a “per capita” number meaningless. If I spend $15k on one kid and $5k on another, my per capita spending is $10k. That doesn’t tell me anything about the spending each kid received. When you mostly fund schools through local property taxes, areas with higher property values can afford better schools. If spending didn’t matter, we wouldn’t consistently see the richest areas spending the most. They obviously see a correlation between the spending and student success.