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Social security was last cut in 1983. Education is funded by the states. The rest of the things you mention are rounding errors in spending.
by School-Cotton 2y ago
Social security was last cut in 1983. Education is funded by the states. The rest of the things you mention are rounding errors in spending.
- sidewndr46 2y agoEverything in the US is funded by the citizens of the states and territories. Outside of the tiny area that is Columbia, the federal government has no citizens.
- School-Cotton 2y agoWhat's your point?
- crystal_revenge 2y agoParents point is that the vast majority of educational funding in practice is not decided at the federal level but at the state and often city level. Most of the money public k-12 schools get from municipal property taxes, and most of the public funding that state universities receive comes from the state level.
- amarshall 2y agoStates also receive federal funding for education. DoE is 2.0% of the federal budget for 2024.
- mulmen 2y agoAnd what percentage of education spending does that 2% amount to?
- Rebelgecko 2y agoAround 15% of K-12 education in America, although a good chunk of their money beyond that is spent on aid for poor students who want to go to college and special ed.
- johnnyanmac 2y ago>Social security was last cut in 1983. yes, during a mini-recession IIRC. we're around that point. >Education is funded by the states. and federal funding.
- fooblaster 2y agomissing my point. they are going to gut the parts of government that deliver value to citizens, and inevitably drive up spending of the most bloated part of government