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LetsGoBucsPeople in this country have got to wake up to the fact that if you skimp on education and infrastructure, you get what you pay for down the line in the form of rotting bridges and ignorant workers. Taxation is not a dirty word; we owe it to ourselves and our children to fairly and properly fund the public sector. That investment in earlier, more enlightened times is what made this country great.
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We don't scrimp on eduction. We spend more per pupil on education than any country in the world. So taxation is already taking place at high levels to support education. The reality is that we have areas with good schools (usually correlated to income but not always) and areas with bad schools.
I would argue that the earlier times you reference were done without curriculum directors, school psychiatrists, and a teachers union with policies just to the left of the old USSR. Reading, Writing, and arithmetic (and a little discipline) don't require tons of taxes.
I agree totally that we do scrimp on infrastructure.