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Your $300k includes costs paid by the parents, though, but in this case we only care about government costs.


but in this case we only care about government costs

Why? Raising a child is a six-figure investment of money that doesn't go somewhere else. Every expenditure that doesn't immediately go back into the local economy like food is wasted when a person leaves. That fraction of a tax is probably never going to equal what the hometown spent on things like education it will receive no return on.




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