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Originally Posted by mookiemookie

Increasing GDP is not worth government investment?

The majority of educational spending is at the state and local level, not federal.

Many states are almost bankrupt at the moment. For most states, education is the supermajority of state spending. This is true of states that have the very highest tax rates, too (NY, NJ, CA, etc). Instead of the graph posted, it would be interesting to look at gross state product as a function of time with education spending superimposed on the same time scale.

You could also likely chart GDP vs calories eaten, too. Maybe even fat calories. It's not necessarily causal. Does spending on edu cause GDP growth, or do countries with large GDPs spend more just because?