San Francisco is not on the high end in the US, but it is suffering largely because of increasing pension and salary requirements. I assume the latter (and likely both) is itself caused by the extreme cost of living in the area.
You're somewhat arguing his point for him. We spend significantly more per student than almost anywhere, and our education is comparatively poor. We spend significantly more per patient, and our healthcare is comparatively poor.
How much we spend isn't a metric of it being good. It's demonstration of failure.
The only OECD country to spend more per student than the US is Norway.
https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cmd.asp
San Francisco is not on the high end in the US, but it is suffering largely because of increasing pension and salary requirements. I assume the latter (and likely both) is itself caused by the extreme cost of living in the area.
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/sfusd-expects-budget-cuts-de...