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I personally don’t understand what collecting more taxes will even do for us. We are unable to agree on what to spend it on, so what’s the point. There won’t be
by runawaybottle 5y ago
I personally don’t understand what collecting more taxes will even do for us. We are unable to agree on what to spend it on, so what’s the point. There won’t be universal healthcare or free college, and we mostly just send the money to social security, Medicare and defense, and our albatross education system. Stop collecting more taxes until we know what we want to spend it on.
- germinalphrase 5y agoI teach in a public high school. My gut instinct is that most “education” problems are actually education problems so much as manifestations of other social problems we are unwilling/unable to solve. Schools are just one of the few environments all Americans participate in (one way or another) so other problems become visible in a way they aren’t otherwise. This is also why - in my non-expert opinion - the ‘high expectations’ and ‘full wrap around services’ educational models show positive impacts. They address (indirectly and directly) these externalities in a way that typical public school does not.
- runawaybottle 5y agoTo your point, the same is true for policing. These things become the one funnel where all other problems get directed to (parenting, environment, media, etc), and just thrown into the laps of an institution that can’t make up for years of neglect or misguidance.