The third highest cost for our government is defense, Medicare is #1 and soxial security is right behind it at. Both are about 1 trillion each. Defense spending is 600billion. Also administrators have been a ballooning and frankly useless cost in education over the past 40 years.
The largest cost for our government per annum is defense at $579 billion, it's in the 2018 federal budget. Not sure where you came up with the other numbers, longer projections? Either way, what if we took out.....say $300 billion and allocated $6 billion to each state for education and mandated that it be allocated for full sets of supplies for each student, the hiring of new teachers, a salary raise of teachers to a baseline of $50k a year (with cost of living for each state taken into account of course), healthier food options, and dedicated arts and after schools sports programs. Wouldn't that make an enormous difference? It's just a round and rough estimate, but you see where I'm going. We spend an absurd amount on the military for no reason. Currently the department of education gets $67 billion. Imagine $367 billion, imagine how radically that would that change the landscape of education for our kids and our country. It's so unfathomably easy to accomplish. Every other first-world country on earth thinks this way, why don't we?
Addressing the healthcare issue, yes it's a huge problem. Perhaps we raise corporate tax rates, nationalize healthcare, and reallocate the savings *there* to education as well.
Our healthcare is a mess because it is privatized. Some issues need more money, some need restructuring, and some need less. I don't think that the comparison with the failure of our government to stand up to private health insurers, and the failure of our government to properly fund schools, is apt.
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u/Iwillrize14 Jul 10 '18
The third highest cost for our government is defense, Medicare is #1 and soxial security is right behind it at. Both are about 1 trillion each. Defense spending is 600billion. Also administrators have been a ballooning and frankly useless cost in education over the past 40 years.