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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my pet peeves is people always wondering why we can't have nice things like Europeans.  Many of those nice things happen because of higher tax rates because they have social democracies, not all out capitalism.

And as for Japan, maybe they are more capitalist, but they are having a huge demographic issue because people don't even want to have kids.

I agree that we need structural reform, but it does not come free.  You get what you pay for and we don't pay/tax/invest enough to make that happen.
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Oh please. There is plenty of existing tax revenue that could be re-allocated to education. And plenty in the school budget that could be re-allocated to *real* education [/quote]

PP.  Then why isn't it happening?  At what point in the budgeting process does the bureaucrat say that something else is more important than education.  And money doesn't come out of thin air.  How do you know that there is plenty of existing tax revenue?  What have you identified that should be cut, without shortchanging other organizations within the county or state?
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We already spend more per student than any other country. Including countries in Europe. The problem with America is that our school systems (and other government departments) are so full of bloat and waste that we have nothing to show for all that extra money. Just look at some of the salaries reported on this website. In what world should government workers be earning multiple six figures? Yet here we are, and our kids eat crap all day at school and have to suffer through the damaging “balanced literacy” reading and whatever new “social emotional learning” program (which used to just be called normal parenting) because parents in this country don’t want to parent and administrators want to line the own pockets rather than put the money in the right places.[/quote]

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