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>> The schools don't have tons of money just sitting around, so the next step is more taxes. In a world where communities are experimenting with Universal Basi
by mojomark 5y ago
>> The schools don't have tons of money just sitting around, so the next step is more taxes.
In a world where communities are experimenting with Universal Basic Income (UBI - which I also think is a sorely broken concept) to redistribute excess wealth to citizens just for breathing, I don't understand how the next step towards funding actual work that we need accomplished is to increase taxes.
The existing funding just needs to be channeled better to the right places. So, I think the next step is actually electing/highering better managers of school funding.
- Volundr 5y agoIt's a very small minority of communities that are experimenting with UBI, and even less of them doing so with tax dollars as opposed to some kind of charity or otherwise funded study. I agree our spending is out of whack, but the programs I'd like to see cut for funding bus drivers are the same ones the folks demanding we cut taxes insist we must keep bathing in money, not the ones aimed at helping people get out of poverty. So given no one is willing to give up their preferred programs, raising taxes seems like the only option if we want to keep transporting kids to school.