“Schools of today have less money to spend on their students because they’re paying off the debts of yesteryear,” she said.
It’s ‘amazing’, isn’t it, that those taxpayer-funded ‘contracts’ doled out never had the $$ to back them up (most of it paid out to get the kick-backs). Nor, that I have read, is there anything about reducing based on population/taxes received.
Here in Jax we’re currently running the same game. During the BOOMS, gov’t grows = taxes get raised. But, when the LOWS come, well, now we have to raise taxes to pay for the ‘new now’ of bloated gov’t. No talks on reducing anything, just more $$.