Getting Expensive Calculators to Poor People

Graphing Calculators are required for many high level math classes, the problem is that these calculators are so expensive. A new calculator can cost anywhere from $80 to $200, coming up with such money can be difficult during poor economic times. Still it is very important for students who are pursuing math and science to get the equipment they need. 

Confronting a Marxist Calculator System
 One way to confront the high expense of Graphing Calculators and getting students what they need would be to establish a "Marxist" calculator system. In such a system all the calculators in a community would be compiled into a large educational stash. Tax dollars would ensure that there would be enough calculators for each student. Then students would be given the calculator they needed for their class making them equal, because no student would have a more powerful calculator. All private collections of calculators would be confiscated and added to the community stash.
Being a semi-conservative nationalist I disagree agree with such a system not just for political reasons, but also because such a system would hold back technological advancement in education, and make it a crime collect calculators for non educational use. Most of the calculator technology around today was available in the year 1999, and with new devices such as smartphones and tablets graphing calculators are already obsolete. So it would be unwise for a community to put such a System into effect.

The True Solution
A real answer to the problem of classes requiring students to buy expensive obsolete calculators would be to let students use smart phones with calculator apps during class, and having students take standardized tests on computers. The standardized test software would come with a virtual graphing calculator so students wouldn't have to get out their phones which could possibly be used for cheating. 
Graphing Calculators are very cool devices but they are also obsolete, and it is unfair to require students to buy expensive obsolete devices.