In Florida, for example, residents have to pay that $9K early years and $12K primary years education costs per kid. That's $160K just for basic education per each child spread over 18 years. That's not daycare, food, heat, lodging, medical expenses are applied. Since this targets the poorer of the state, most will be dependent on supplemental services. Multiply that individual child expenses across tens of thousands in a given birth year, and then compound that each and every year. Ten thousand kids born in one year will amount to nearly $2 Billion by the time they are emancipated. Enjoy your state bankruptcies Red States! Of course, you'll try to mooch off of other states, like you always do.
Yep. One just has to look at their property taxes and see the number one cost is education. In, NJ, where I live, it costs around $16K per year plus $800 in busing per child. If you have the poorest people, ones who are heavily dependent on supplemental services, these costs will be even larger. This might explain why a lot of Red States cut supplemental services, push for home schooling and church based education as a way to cut costs, while providing a lower grade of education product. These states are all for this now, but in a few years they'll be kicking themselves when the bills come due. Then more people will become up in arms that their school taxes are too high. From 1950 onward, the US birth rates per 1000 people have been steadily dropping. For the past 5 years it's been hovering at 12 per 1000. This stasis is why we don't see large fluctuations in education costs. But now, there is an imbalance and soon those effects will be felt.
These anti-abortion laws will place undue tax burdens on all state residents, and depending on how many extra births result each and every year, financially unsustainable.
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