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It's one of the biggest problems of the US. The population craves a high level of government services like in developed European or Asian countries, but isn't w
by Karrot_Kream 5y ago
It's one of the biggest problems of the US. The population craves a high level of government services like in developed European or Asian countries, but isn't willing to pay for them. So instead the government is stuck playing politics to make the budget work instead of actually taking a cost efficiency mindset. Schools double as daycare because taxpayers don't want to pay for actual daycare. Local road construction is subsidized by the federal government despite maintenance being unsustainable. Budgets by the federal government never balance.
- lr4444lr 5y agoWhat are you talking about? We pay way more per capita to educate kids and give people healthcare in this country than in a lot of other well developed countries where these things are more unified by government directive. Dysfunctionally, of course, but we pay a lot for it.
- Karrot_Kream 5y agoEducation spend is in the upper range but still close to other OECD countries [1]. Healthcare is the outlier there [2]. [1]: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator/cmd [2]: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9-en/1/3/1/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/ae3016b9-en&_csp_=ca413da5d44587bc56446341952c275e&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book#execsumm-d1e71 https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/ae3016b9-en/1/3/1/index....