re: "Conservatives" agree to new entitlement program costing hundreds of millions per year

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Saying "my taxes fund public schools, since I don't use them, I should get it back" is meaningless drivel unless you can attach a dollar amount to it.

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Seems like that creates an incentive for the state to keep education funding opaque so that any citizen complaints are rendered "meaningless drivel" because there is (by design?) no way for them to attach a specific dollar value.