Funding Education Adequately
The perfect number of dollars to dedicate to educating our children; would be the highest number we can imagine, which is not then wasted.
The paradigm as it now exists;
voter/taxpayers are given a choice of underfunding education,
or raising taxes.
Voter/taxpayers are not allowed to choose between art in the schools and art along the freeway.
If they were given that choice; kids would have the funding they needed; and the people who want art along the freeway;
would be the ones needing to justify raising taxes.