[rayiner]

Democrats base their arguments on some bombshell mistruths. Like trillion dollar mistruths. The idea that America underinvests in schools and social welfare, for example, when we spend more than European countries per person on both metrics.

[jahaja]

What nations spend and what the people actually receive are two different things and you know it, yet you keep repeating this time and time again.

[rayiner]

Democrats argue we need to spend more and pay teachers more. The argument that we need to do a better job making sure the money we spend actually benefits kids, that’s a different argument, and will get you branded a Republican.

[jahaja]

Yes, and it might be very reasonable that some areas of those are underfunded while other are wasteful. The reasons for this discrepancy might very well be policies that are upheld by republicans, like inflated healthcare costs, who knows? You're just providing a generalization. The meager output with the same input suggests that there's too many middle men and I wouldn't just assume that Republicans are more willing to stop the siphoning of taxes into private pockets.

[esarbe]

Does anyone care to explain the downvotes? This seems like a reasonable argument to be made.

[esarbe]

Less discussion, more downvoting!

[esarbe]

It's so sad that the divisiveness of this topic makes it impossible to be discussed in an friendly and respectful way.