They’re about to sell you something that sounds good. “Lower taxes.” “School choice.” “More freedom.” And if you don’t slow down and really look at it… you’re gonna fall for it again. Because nobody starts with the part that actually matters. When they say “cut income taxes”… they’re not telling you that money funds the same schools people complain about every day. So when that money disappears, your neighborhood doesn’t magically get better… it gets less. Less teachers, less programs, less stability. But it sounds good though, right? “Tax relief.” Now let’s talk about property taxes. Yeah, everybody hates them. But that’s what keeps schools running. So if those get cut too, and nothing replaces it, what you think happens next? The schools YOU depend on get weaker. Not the private schools. Not the suburbs. Yours. And then they hit you with “school choice.” That sounds powerful until you realize what’s really happening. Public money gets pulled out of public schools and handed out in pieces. Some people move up. Most people stay stuck in a system that just lost more resources. So now the gap gets bigger… and they call it opportunity. And here’s the part nobody says out loud… they’re also removing anything that directly focuses on Black outcomes. No targeted policies, no direct fixes, no accountability for the gap. So now you’ve got less money, weaker systems, and no plan to fix the difference. That’s not random. That’s how the same results keep happening no matter who’s in charge. Different name, same playbook. Make it sound fair, ignore where people actually start, let the system do the rest. And then years later… we’re asking the same question again, “how did we end up here?” Nah. The real question is why do we keep believing it when the results never change.