K-12 Tax & $pending Climate: The federal budget deficit looms as America’s next crisis
The talk is titled “Fiscal Policy Challenges Facing the Next Presidential Administration,” and the speaker will be Mike Murphy, longtime chief of staff for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. His nonpartisan group has fought budget deficits since it was created in the 1980s, those long-gone days of backslapping compromises between Ronald Reagan and Tip O’Neill, before politics became a blood sport.
My reaction to a conversation with Murphy is that he makes a tough ask of thoughtful people on the center and left in places like Madison.
Madison’s taxpayer supported K-12 system now spends > $25k per student… far more than most districts.
