Ahh...thats where my $10,000+ in taxes goes (New York, Floyd: 2009, credit)

[TomMoser]

Originally Posted by totallyfrazzled

Shades of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal"!

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Good to know that somebody got it!

[woodworkingmenace]

Hey, be glad that you have a job where you can pay so much, because you EARN so much!!!

A lot of us dont earn that type of money, where we can pay 10,000 + in taxes.. But, I sure would like to have it...

May the LORD Bless each of you.

I wish you well...

Jesse

[DeadPool1998]

Originally Posted by TubaFish

Gee, I_LOVE_LI_BUT, why don't you tell me how you really feel? HaHa



Actually this is not as bad of an idea as you might imagine. By ending public education, everybody can save a few tax dollars. Those who care enough and have the money will pay private tutors to educate their children. Those without the money (or desire) will not educate their children. The educated children will get good jobs, the uneducated will work for peanuts. The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. Poor slobs. It's a good thing we have a HIGHLY paid police force that will protect the rich and industrious from the inevitably violent, poor proletariat.



Aww shucks, I didn't know you liked me so much. You know what's funny, though. Under this scenario, I would not only have my hands in your 401K, but also in that fat check you cut to Uncle Sam each year. I think I'll take the Job!!!

Ron Paul 2012, WooHoo!!!!

There really isn't anything funny, even remotely, in this post. This is some cruel, nasty Moderator cut: language .

[TubaFish]

Originally Posted by DeadPool1998

This population of teachers is already wasted, as they've grown accustomed to large salaries. The ultimate solution is to stick them on a train to a camp in Ronkonkoma - "Camp Hannity" - where they will staff a call center for United Airlines. When they get ill, we will just gas them, as paying to hospitalize them is much too costly. (Don't get me started on that - free market health care has been awesome for my stock portfolio, and the fewer of these wombed creatures that are treated, the better my dividend).

Then I think all the kids should be home-schooled. Then if the parents can't stay home to school them, then screw them. After all, we are all aware that children are only the problem of the parent. They never end up harming the community or anything like that. That's just sociological hogwash - "Clap-trap" as O'Reilly would put it.

Auction the schools off to private institutions and give a fat rebate back to the hard-working Americans who borrowed those funds from China.

And this is the rhetoric of teddy bears and children's stories?

[DeadPool1998]

Originally Posted by TubaFish

And this is the rhetoric of teddy bears and children's stories?

Satire: Noun, Def. - the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.

You actually meant what you wrote.

[tomonlineli]

I say let's fire the teachers, principals and administrators and close the schools

Wow, you're even more conservative than me. How about we just offer early graduation to 8th graders. We waste so much money educating people that have very little potential to ever repay the original investment.

That money can be refunded to the people who have worked hard in the private sector and can't pay their 10k property taxes on their 2,000 square foot ranch that was built in the 1950s.

[NHP Guy]

I think you have incomplete information that kind of precludes a level headed discussion from taking place. By that I mean, you'd need to look at what other LI professionals make in say the engineering and accounting fields since I think that's about the best you can do in terms of making a somewhat meaningful comparison to teachers. On an apples to apples basis, with similar education and experience, you'd need to see where those salaries fell (adjusted for the same amout of hours worked) in order to make any type of conclusion in terms of what group may be underpaid, overpaid, etc.

[DeadPool1998]

Originally Posted by NHP Guy

I think you have incomplete information that kind of precludes a level headed discussion from taking place. By that I mean, you'd need to look at what other LI professionals make in say the engineering and accounting fields since I think that's about the best you can do in terms of making a somewhat meaningful comparison to teachers. On an apples to apples basis, with similar education and experience, you'd need to see where those salaries fell (adjusted for the same amout of hours worked) in order to make any type of conclusion in terms of what group may be underpaid, overpaid, etc.

Good luck getting a reasoned discussion. Any request for support that ideas such as cutting salaries won't hurt education, morale, students, whatever, are met with more absurd gesticulations.

But you make an important point. I know a lot of people who could have easily have become lawyers, but who answered a call to teach instead. Their salaries should be compared, and I think if we do we will find that teachers are still woefully underpaid.

[suzook]

Originally Posted by DeadPool1998

Their salaries should be compared, and I think if we do we will find that teachers are still woefully underpaid.

Your joking, right?

[NHP Guy]

Originally Posted by DeadPool1998

But you make an important point. I know a lot of people who could have easily have become lawyers, but who answered a call to teach instead. Their salaries should be compared, and I think if we do we will find that teachers are still woefully underpaid.

I'm not sure I understand your point.

Are you saying that those teachers that could've "easily" gone into law should be compared to those that are actually lawyers or are you saying that teachers are "woefully" underpaid relative to other professional groups that I mentioned, such as engineers and accountants?