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		ffumarola on March 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All 1,926 public school teachers in Providence fir... They were able to afford tax cuts for people who make over $10 million/year (I'm recalling this from memory from this past summer...). And IMO there are plenty of programs that should be cut before education.

yummyfajitas on March 5, 2011 [–]

There isn't much else that can be cut. At the local level, education spending dwarfs everything else.

Nationwide, at the local level, more money is spent on education than on police, prisons, roads, welfare and healthcare combined.

http://usgovernmentspending.com/piechart_2009_US_total

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