There’s also the feedback loop where they point at the broken underfunded public services and are like “see how shit public services are? They’re a waste of taxes. We could gut them to save you money”
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running_ragged@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
The GOP is fully to blame.
They sell the American public on the idea that any taxes are bad, no matter what they are meant to fund. When they are in power they cut public services, give tax breaks to corporations, and schedule tax raises to occur when they’re out of power.
When they aren’t in power they yell about taxes nonstop to make sure democrats are too scared to re-fund them, so they don’t get voted out.
Cycle after cycle, and now there’s no money to give the teachers.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
They’ve conditioned people to be so against taxes that you have a significant portion of the public saying things like, “why should my taxes fund public schools if my children graduated 20 years ago?”
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I’ve heard people say this with my own IRL ears. It’s completely indefensible.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 hours ago
It’s a very common sentiment. It comes from people with no kids as well, which is bad enough, but when it’s boomers who had kids go to public school for k-12, it’s just another level.