Comment Re:Priorities (Score 1) 133
Are you wanting to compare voluntary spending or involuntary spending?
Some miniscule amount of tax money goes to defending sport franchises' rights, where a very significant percentage of the taxes people pay goes toward education.
Now comparing voluntary spending on education to sports related spending would be a very interesting number indeed. People pay for college and private school but only some of them and generally only for a limited period of their life. The spending on sports is much more prevalent and is generally spread over a lifetime.
Spending on health is another issue entirely, but voluntary verses involuntary numbers would indeed be interesting.