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A comment on SAT score distributions in Michigan. Parent comment

Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by sokoloff on Thursday October 06, 2022 @10:28AM (#33108620)
The financial solution chosen to drive equality is likely to be "you must fire half of your teachers, resulting in class sizes of 36 for you, which we think is close enough to 35".

Does that actually help anyone?

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Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by socialismisok on Thursday October 06, 2022 @08:03PM (#33115798)
Or "we tax wealthy people more", which sounds fine to me. (As a wealthy person.)
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Re:SAT score distributions in Michigan by sokoloff on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:51AM (#33122143)
That’s somewhat straightforward for states (and property tax is a weak proxy form of it), but wealth taxation at the federal level is debatably but likely unconstitutional.

You could tax high-incomes more federally in a straightforward way, which is almost surely therefore easier to implement.

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