Much like Kansas&#x27; decision to cut taxes and then plug the resulting budget hole with cuts to education, Flint&#x27;s conservative policies were tremendously short-sighted.  Poor education in Kansas will lead to increased poverty and crime, and fewer well-trained workers, which will cost the state dearly in 16 years or so.  Likewise, Flint is going to spend much, much more cleaning up this mess than they could ever have saved.