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That pre-supposes that the problem is money - state and local revenues have been growing at 6%+ CAGR since the 1970’s, well in excess of inflation. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/state-general-rev...

But what does that look like on a per-capita basis?

Well population growth over that period was ~1% and inflation was ~3.7% so still ~1.3% real increase in spending a year...