Good point, and with the costs saved from removing flouride, they could further increase child-hydration profit margins by simply having them eat the paint off the walls instead.
Those same lead filled schools will be sold to private equity companies for pennies on the dollar because they will say they are full of dangerous chemicals. Those private equity companies will rent them out to charter schools and take in the same kids that were already going but charge the parents on top of taking the vouchers the govt gives out.
Everything about the current Republican party exists to break government to the point of it ceasing to function. When that happens, they can point at it and say "see? Government doesn't work."
Then they sweep in with a privatized solution to the problem they created, and they get richer.
They know it's essential. They also know you'll pay for it if they can kill the governmental solution.
The left needs to do with "waste, fraud, and abuse" what the right did with "woke". I guess that might be tough because the left doesn't mindlessly parrot talking points as prolifically.