Aren't roads funded from gas tax?

And schools are almost entirely paid by the local property taxes, at least in the communities where most of Apple employees will live.

Texas has a"Robin hood" school finance system, where districts with high property values are subject to recapture, where they send a large percentage of the property taxes collected to the state to be used for districts in less wealthy areas. If memory serves, Austin ISD sends almost half of its billion dollar budget back to the state.

$670 million this year. Due to our our exploding home values and decling enrollment.

> Aren't roads funded from gas tax?

No. Not much at all. Highways, once upon a time, mostly. Local roads not really ever. https://frontiergroup.org/reports/fg/do-roads-pay-themselves

How roads are funded depends on the State and locale. In some States, all highways are funded solely by use (gas and car) taxes as a constitutional requirement. Local roads, on the other hand, are funded almost arbitrarily -- it does include a gas tax in many places but in many places it does not.

The way you're saying "red" makes it sound like something bad.

Predictive, usable and fair. Pick any two!

Intelligence doesn't matter much when you have it. It matters quite a lot when you don't.

Like in basketball - being 2.50m tall doesn't mean you'll beat everyone on the court. But being 1.50m pretty much guarantees you're out of luck.

> But being 1.50m pretty much guarantees you're out of luck

1.60 m, though, is apparently good enough: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muggsy_Bogues

Bogues is really the exception that proves the rule. He had to be incredibly talented and athletic to make up for his lack of height, but even then he was only a good, not great, NBA player. If you are 1.60m tall and your dream is making the NBA, well, unless you are literally one of the most athletically talented people on the planet, you should probably give it up.

You're really just reaching the edge of where his analogy breaks down. There are actually advantages to being shorter in basketball, but his analogy did not account for it.

Enough with - i suppose - lots of other gifts. I would assume anyone with his height is less likely to even try basketball.

And a billion dollars doesn't really matter when you have a billion dollars. Also, red shoes are red when they are red.