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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The "but I pay taxes!" argument would be more compelling if your taxes only paid for education. [/quote]

At this point, I'm wondering what my taxes actually DO pay for because the city services are less than ideal.  But that's for another thread!  :D [/quote]

They pay for, among other things, great and improved care for the homeless. Ask the Mayor.

They also pay for hundred-million renovations of failing schools. Ask the Mayor (and previous ones) [/quote]

And sweetheart deals for your contracting or consulting company, if you gave enough money to Bowser's campaign.  There also may be a sweet, highly-paid, do-nothing-to-very-little DC job for you, if you gave enough to The Bowse.[/quote]

If you guys think that DC is bad, you'd last 10 seconds in CA. Per student school expenditures half the size of DC, rotten test scores, crumbling roads, poor public transit, lines at the DMV that go out the door. The low tax states in the South have even worse outcomes. You get what you pay for.[/quote]

Nope, the point is that we don't get what we pay for.[/quote]

Yes, you do. Lower tax jurisdictions have much worse services. [b]Plenty of places like NY and NJ have much higher taxes than DC (2.5% property taxes in NJ), and they don't get free prek for two years[/b].[/quote]

See, you are contradicting yourself.

BTW, I don't care about other cities, I care about DC. And, as previous PP said, we do NOT get what we pay.[/quote]

What exactly do you think you're supposed to be getting for your money? PK3 and PK4 at the school of your choice isn't guaranteed. High quality neighborhood schools isn't guaranteed either. I think that money could be used better as well, but the "I pay taxes so I deserve to not be disappointed on Lottery Day" argument smacks of entitlement to me. [/quote]

Not rocket science, really. I want the real money to go to the good schools, so they can build up capacity to benefit more kids.

Instead, the real money now is being wasted on empty monuments to cronyism and political machinations.[/quote]

Let's be frank here.  If the "good schools" were suddenly expanded to accommodate tons of additional students from all over the city, they would no longer be considered "good schools" by people like you.

Start judging schools by how well they actually improve the individuals that attend there and you'll see that there are many more good schools.  But you have to get past stereotypes and prejudice.[/quote]

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