1/Great question - especially since there’s a definitive answer to the education part (see next tweet)......https://twitter.com/lydiadepillis/status/1040258557973880832 …
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Here’s a graph that shows public education spending (massively increased over 40 years) vs outcomes (unchanged over 40 years). So, the answer is yes, it is better for Bezos to try spending it privately vs taxing him and spending it publicly.pic.twitter.com/EpL6CQ35qD
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Could this graph also represent the number of hours the average person sleeps vs the increase in costs of living or CEO salaries or anything else impacted by inflation? I am always puzzled with the business market argument applied to education. Apples and oranges.
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That chart is inflation-adjusted.
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So why are teachers now buying basic supplies with their own salaries? Perhaps the additional costs are not being spent on children but rather diverted into the pockets of private interests who lobby?
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It is a good idea to be at least a little skeptical of Cato Institute.https://www.thenation.com/article/independent-and-principled-behind-cato-myth/ …
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I smell a false dichotomy
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or we could end the psychotic system of tying education funding to local property taxes so rich schools buy an ipad for every kid and poor schools can't afford a new bulb for their overhead projector from the 80s.
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also, for the record, in 1970 education spending for k-12 was 4.5% of GDP, in 2016 it was 4.1%
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