Your comment is way off base when it comes to factual analysis, but you’re right to take offense at my tone. That part of my comment was pretty snarky, sorry.
I was just annoyed at the combination of entitlement and lack of empathy in the poster I was responding to.
I actually think it’s a good thing to redistribute money from rich states like California, New Jersey, or Illinois toward poor states like New Mexico and Mississippi.
I also really like New Mexico, which is a beautiful state filled with lovely towns and wonderful people.
To live in a society together requires a certain baseline level of equality of means and opportunity so that we can treat each-other with empathy and mutual respect. When some areas are rich financial centers and others have serious social problems and few employment opportunities, it’s smart national policy to redirect federal funds from richer areas toward poorer areas to encourage economic development.
W/r/t higher education specifically, I think it would be a wonderful thing to send more federal money to state universities in places like New Mexico, which are really hurting financially these days. (As a thought experiment, if we replaced a substantial portion of the military spending that currently goes to poor states with education spending, I daresay the outcomes would be dramatically better for everyone involved.)
I was just annoyed at the combination of entitlement and lack of empathy in the poster I was responding to.
I actually think it’s a good thing to redistribute money from rich states like California, New Jersey, or Illinois toward poor states like New Mexico and Mississippi.
I also really like New Mexico, which is a beautiful state filled with lovely towns and wonderful people.
To live in a society together requires a certain baseline level of equality of means and opportunity so that we can treat each-other with empathy and mutual respect. When some areas are rich financial centers and others have serious social problems and few employment opportunities, it’s smart national policy to redirect federal funds from richer areas toward poorer areas to encourage economic development.
W/r/t higher education specifically, I think it would be a wonderful thing to send more federal money to state universities in places like New Mexico, which are really hurting financially these days. (As a thought experiment, if we replaced a substantial portion of the military spending that currently goes to poor states with education spending, I daresay the outcomes would be dramatically better for everyone involved.)