American parents contribute more money to their children's education than any country in the world, and America is one of only countries in the first world where the government spends less money educating the children of the poor, than they do on children of the rich.
That's because our education is mostly locally supported. You have a higher income, live in a city or town where you can afford higher taxes for education, you get what you pay for.
Republicans have created the system which funnels 80% of the nation's income to the countries top 20% of wealthy individuals and corporations, and impoverishes the working and middle class every few years.
No, it's been our system all along. Even every Democrat in this forum and country will send their money to the top several times this week. They will pay their cell phone bill, their internet bill, cable or satellite television bill, buy apps for their phone or computer, stop and McDonalds or Burger King several times a week, buy gasoline.
After all, that's how people and companies get rich: they supply their customers with services or products they want. It has nothing to do with the Republicans.
I know how your schools are funded. Our schools are funded by the province. All Ontario schools get the same amount of money per student, regardless of where they're located. Kids in Regent Park public housing get the same resources from the province as the kids in Rosedale who attend public schools. Teachers in both schools get the same salaries. Every child has a better chance. In Norway, they spend more on the poor kids than the rich kids.
Your view of economics comes from a place of such ignorance and misinformation I cannot begin to correct all of the false information on how people get and corporations get rich. To start with, the federal government has established a mininum wage for workers, which the Republican Party has held to the smallest increase possible since 1980 and then refused to raise this amount, instead having taxpayers supplement the minium wage to provide adequate income to live on.
No other country in the world has such an expensive, inefficient or costly system to supplement low wages workers as food stamps or earned income credits. In effect, the middle class is subsidizing the wages for some of the most profitable corporations in America using YOUR money. Every taxpayer in America is contributing to the bottom line for McDonald's, Walmart, and other minimum wage corporations, all while these corporations are booking record profits and paying out the highest dividends in history.
Countries which aren't being run to favour the corporate class, require companies to pay their own damn workers. Walmart has paid $14 per hour in Canada since 2018, and they're still the most profitable company in Canada. It was supposed to go up to $15/hr but the Conservatives got elected and cancelled the increase. Conservative don't like working people. They think they're stupid and spend the money foolishly.
So you start by underpaying workers, and then you overtax the middle class to give them enough money to live on. And don't give me your bullshit line about making yourself more valuable. Wages as a percentage of costs, are the lowest they've been since the 1800's. so that's just bullshit. Corporations are awash in cash and have never paid higher dividends. Stock by-backs are at record levels, and workers have never been lower paid.
That's what Republicans did. When Reagan was elected, everybody got a piece of the pie. Republicans have lowered taxes to the millionaire class 3 times. Now the working class makes so little money they don't pay taxes. The rich pay a much smaller percentage of tax on the money than working and middle class people, so the government gets less tax from the wealthy than they would in the hands of the working and middle class.
