@AlexanderKingsbury@mastodon.social
Post #1695165
2025-10-01 23:37 UTC
@aj
"Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts.
Schools."
Uhhh, no. School funding has increased over the past 40 years. By a LOT.
Welfare? "From 1977 to 2021, in 2021 inflation-adjusted dollars, state and local government spending on public welfare increased from $154 billion to $862 billion (458 percent increase)."
https://www.urban.org/policy-centers/cross-center-initiatives/state-and-local-finance-initiative/state-and-local-backgrounders/public-welfare-expenditures
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