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This is a strawman. Quit trying to put words in my mouth.
Not really. There are housing developers and real estate orgs that intentionally destroy neighborhood housing value for their own profit. The lower house prices mean that local schools go underfunded because of how property tax is tied to school funding.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/systemic-inequality-displacement-exclusion-segregation/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusting
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/blockbusting/
On top of that, marginalized demographics do not have the generational wealth required to get better jobs, meaning they can't bear the burden.
Fuck that. No school should be left behind because of some made up failure to pull up bootstraps that don't exist.
Piss away your vote if you like, but I'm going to vote to keep society educated. I don't want to live in a world of uneducated assholes, especially considering how big of a factor education is in crime rates.
I already addressed that:
"On top of that, marginalized demographics do not have the generational wealth required to get better jobs, meaning they can’t bear the burden."
I can't fathom why somebody would want higher crime rates. Failing to educate the public leads to higher crime rates.
Republicans truly are the party of crime.
How very freedom. We are number one in prisoners per capita. Land of the Free my ass.
Any system that intentionally increases crime, prisoners per capita, and cost is a bad system. There are alternatives that reduce all three. But it requires everyone investing in education.
Republicans and people like you are trying to destroy education. And that leads to higher crime rates.
So ultimately you're saying you want higher crime rates.
Republicans are trying to destroy education by siphoning money away from already underfunded schools. Y'all aren't trying to fix it. You're just focusing on culture war bullshit.
That's not the claim though. Quit trying to move the goal posts.
Because a school needs money to operate. There is a minimum amount of money it takes to operate a school. Taking money away from an already struggling school will just make things worse.
So then where is the money coming from? The government's budget is a zero sum game.
An either-or fallacy occurs when someone claims there are only two possible options or sides in an argument when there are actually more.
"Money is important or money isn't important" What were the other 10 options?
Sorry, the misunderstanding comes from the fact that I intended to reply to "money is important or money isn't important" as a either/or fallacy. Clearly, schools do need money to operate, but throwing more and more money at a school hasn't been shown to improve academic performance. So demanding Pizza answer this doesn't really make any point.
But there are schools, like schools in Brownsville Ms, for example, that have very poor facilities. Because they raise funding at the local level from property taxes, they can't fix the buildings, and still make the regular budget, let alone pay for extracurriculars, sports equipment, etc. So removing funding that goes to some other school actually reduces choice.
I mean, I'm no deontologist...but what do you think would happen if everyone believed this?
Would they pay for their own education? But yeah, weighing the consequences of a bunch of ignorant people running around is important, too.