District 4 cancels the art teacher to patch the budget hole
Property-tax base is thin. Federal tax expenditures for wealth outrun Title I reality.
What they get now
Larger classes, lost arts, and a longer bus ride after consolidation talk.
What they should get
Tax fairness funding public goods and education investment (FIX-TAX-001, FIX-ED-001).
Why not the fair outcome?
Chain of responsibility
Follow the steps from power to lived harm. Each node names an actor, what they did, and what it caused - with receipts.
- 1CongressStep 1 of 4
Wealth and capital loopholes stay open.
Effect: School budgets compete with billionaire tax preferences.
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- 2State govStep 2 of 4
Aid formulas lock in inequality across districts.
Effect: Zip code becomes curriculum.
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- 3PropagandaStep 3 of 4
Any tax on capital is branded as punishment of success.
Effect: Art class becomes the sacrifice.
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- 4Budget prioritiesStep 4 of 4
Enforcement and corporate subsidies outrank school operating aid.
Effect: Kids inherit the residual.
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Bottom line
We did not run out of money. We ran out of willingness to tax the people with it.