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> More accurately: there is a landed (or otherwise wealthy) class in AZ that would rather not pay for public institutions they don't see the need for. It's imp
by spacemanmatt 4y ago
> More accurately: there is a landed (or otherwise wealthy) class in AZ that would rather not pay for public institutions they don't see the need for.
It's important to understand that about most red states.
- drewcoo 4y agoAnd blue states.
- Kon-Peki 4y agoI live in a blue state and parents never stop gushing about how great the public schools are, how their taxes are cheaper than private school tuition, and how happy they are to vote for tax increases to pay for new school stuff. And then when their youngest graduates from high school, they immediately start complaining about taxes, and many of them eventually move to a "cheap" red state where a lot of things actually cost more but at least their taxes are lower. But! I also know some guys that run an investment group that owns a few small manufacturing facilities. Whenever they get a new, complicated thing to build for someone, they start it at their factory in the blue state and work on the process and quality control. Only once they've perfected things and it no longer requires much thinking to make, it gets moved to a certain southeastern US red state where the people get paid half as much. This is basically the same thing that happens in Europe. Perhaps it is actually ok; you don't necessarily need all the factory workers to be good problem solvers.
- spacemanmatt 4y agoI wish we could outlaw private schools.