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Sure... shove it all on the states. So now a poor state like Mississippi - where the need for better education, better healthcare, and better opportunities are the greatest... they're the very same ones who can least afford it. Screw'em - they should have been born richer. That's brilliant, Connie. Meanwhile, over in Connecticut, where the needs aren't so great - they've got all kinds of money to spend on schools and healthcare and social programs. We need effective Federal programs to level the playing field and make sure everyone has the same opportunities - regardless of whether they were born in Mississippi or Connecticut. Give every kid that level playing field, and rest assured, the best and the brightest of them will rise to the top.
All of those years we lived with slavery or segregation... looked the other way and swept it under the carpet. Everything's honky-dory. Does it ever make you wonder how much talent we squandered as a nation just in the South alone? If you were a black man born in Georgia before the end of Jim Crow, you could have been the most brilliant man who ever lived. Given the right support and encouragement, you could have cured cancer or have been the next Einstein. You could have been America's Da Vinci. Wouldn't have mattered though, would it? You were born poor, and poor is what you were going to stay. Smartest sharecropper who ever lived.
Times changed, though... we've knocked down those racial barriers - now we need to do better on knocking down the income barriers... because just like being born rich is the surest way of becoming rich, being born poor is the surest way of remaining poor.
LOL, yep the poor old Mississippi argument ignoring that federal taxes being reduced gives the state more of an opportunity to raise taxes if necessary. Interesting isn't it that people keep moving to Mississippi as they obviously aren't as smart as you
You really have no idea what the role is of the state and federal gov'ts do you? Nor do you understand what funds specific programs including education. This is a problem with the left and why the left believes in a massive central gov't that takes power away from the states
Cannot wait until you get your first job, start paying taxes on everything and maybe then you will understand the reality of a bloated over reaching federal bureaucracy without term limits that have career jobs and power
Keep believing what you are told and ignore reality which again you ignored, 70% of the U.S. budget is entitlement and social spending, 30% of the budget is discretionary including defense. So how much is enough for you?
You want to knock down income barriers? How do you propose doing that? You don't understand personal responsibility nor do you understand the private sector. Nothing is preventing you from joining the rich except for you and your attitude. I know, I used to be a liberal but outgrew it when I saw more of my paycheck going to bureaucrats who spent it in the name of compassion yet never generating compassionate results like solving problems. How many billions is it going to take and where is the accountability.