American towns are divided between those who favor more school spending, and those who favor less. Those who favor more spending portray their opponents as hostile to education, indifferent to children, apathetic about the future of their community, etc. Those who favor less spending talk about the high salaries and juicy perks enjoyed by teachers and school administrators, and they talk about the plight of senior citizens and other needy townspeople, who can t afford to pay high taxes. Most people probably felt that the issue didn t affect them much, and that their vote wouldn t matter anyway. Republicans generally favor less spending, while Democrats favor more spending.
Republicans are skeptical of the public sector.
They want competition in the area of education, they don t want a public school monopoly. They believe that the weakest area of American education is public schools, and the strongest area of American education is private colleges. I believe that democracies are often too generous. As a result, government spending has run wild, and the government has fallen deeply into debt. Politicians win votes by generosity toward sections of society, but the cost of that generosity must be borne by the rest of society.