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Originally Posted by mysticaltyger
But they do pay for public sector retirements. If you're a public sector worker, your whole salary is paid for by the taxpayer as well as your retirement. That's just the fact of the matter.
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If you get right down to the heart of the matter, everyone's living is paid for by someone else's money. You own a business? Your customers are funding your retirement.
I've heard oilfield workers, who were making
huge salaries before the downturn (many without much smarts), complaining about paying teachers' retirements....not considering that
their huge salaries were piled upon the backs of people (like teachers, who, in my area anyway, don't make much money compared to the education they have and the importance of the job they do) who were having to
pay the backbreaking gas prices. Now I think they are realizing where their big money was coming from....funded by teachers, so to speak.
The "taxpayer" is receiving an
extremely valuable service for their contribution...the education of precious and valued children. (And these days most people would
revolt if they had to educate their own children, not to mention not being able to get them out of
their hair for 8 hours a day
and have them fed by the government.) They are not just handing teachers money for nothing. And we DO contribute a significant amount in my state. Our retirement fund was very healthy before our stupid governor started trying to privatize it. Now it's kind of in a mess.
I think I'd probably better bow out of this discussion before my blood pressure gets too high.
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