07-15-2020, 12:21 PM
(07-15-2020, 12:19 PM)fredtoast Wrote: The single biggest reform that could help alleviate poverty would be to have all public schools equally funded by the state instead of having the richest kids have superior schools. This would actually require amending some state constitutions but it would be worth it. And I don't know how wealthy people could object to equal opportunity for all.
This might be worth its own thread.
It might be, because I can tell you how they can object to that. Capitalism requires winners and losers, and those already winning don't want losers to start winning, because then they win less. So equal opportunity is not something they support.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
