The Low-Tax Texas Model
“What is surprising is the growing evidence that the low-benefit, low-tax alternative succeeds not only on its own terms but also according to the criteria used by defenders of high benefits and high taxes.” That’s the takeaway from this piece in City Journal, but the article is worth reading all the way through, especially to learn this surprising statistic:
According to a report issued earlier this year by McKinsey & Company, Texas students “are, on average, one to two years of learning ahead of California students of the same age,” though expenditures per public school student are 12 percent higher in California.
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