On: You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites

[whiterknight]

We must spend 30-50% of state budgets, monopolize children’s time, and expose them to violence and drugs so they can learn to socialize.

[Loughla → whiterknight]

The most recent number I could find is from 2021, and on average, states spent 21.5% of their budget on k-12 education.

[whiterknight → Loughla]

The state and local pay about equal portions. But do you have anything to say about the argument in my comment?

[ricardobeat → whiterknight]

Was there an argument? Lots of places in the world have state-backed top-notch free education, without the guns and violence.

[HeatrayEnjoyer → whiterknight]

What argument?

[mgaunard → whiterknight]

We don't spend 50% of state budgets on primary/secondary education.

[whiterknight → mgaunard]

It does if you consider the part going to your county:

“In 2022, the federal government spent … This is 13.6% of the total spent on elementary and secondary education in 2022. The remaining funding comes from state and local governments, which contribute 43.7% and 42.7%, respectively.”

[feoren → whiterknight]

You've misread that. It is not saying that 43.7% of the state budget goes to elementary and secondary education. It is saying that 43.7% of the funding for education comes from the state. Those are completely different.

[whiterknight → feoren]

No. If 20% of the state budget is then that amount is matched by an equal part local. So state + local education would be 40% of the state budget.

education (property tax) dominates local spend. So yes we do tax and spend extraordinary amounts on education.

[acestus5 → whiterknight]

20% of your money and 20% of my money is not 40% of our money.