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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The entire point of the article is that city governments are not providing adequate infrastructure and services. That, of course, is true and is why NWDC parents started raising large sums of money to compensate in the first place. My oldest started DCPS in the early 2000s. It was nothing like it is now. Parents banded together out of sheer necessity.

Today, despite significantly improved functionality, the DC government still chronically underfunds schools. I would be more than happy if my taxes were raised and allocated reduce class size and provide better specials and wraparound services for those students in need.[/quote]

The problem is that DC pays $25 billion to the federal government and gets only three billion back to its government.
Twenty five!  Three!  That’s negative $22 billion.  Or, every DC taxpayer pays about $30,000 more to the federal government than the DC government gets back.

In contrast, in New York State, each taxpayer pays about $1,000 more to the feds than their governments get back.  (Be careful about other numbers out there especially those from Heritage and Manhattan, the rightwing think tanks— other analyses twist the federal balance of payment calcs by including wages for federal jobs.)
Thus, as a DC taxpayer, $30k of your tax bill on average goes to subsidize other states.  For NY, the next highest state, it’s $1,000.  Kentucky GETS $3,000 or so.

DC is getting SCREWED by the feds.

Our schools don’t have enough money, despite the taxes we pay, because the federal government screws us.[/quote]

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