Teachers in it for themselves

We have heard from the teachers and those who supported their walkout demanding the Legislature give them all pay raises just because they haven’t had any. So what, neither have a lot of the people who pay the taxes that pay the salaries of these ungrateful people. Many have also lost their jobs and their homes, so some taxes are not being paid.

The tax base has been demolished by the last six years of liberal attacks on wealth creation. Why should government employees get cost-of-living adjustments simply because they demand them while the private sector is shrinking?

OK, they say, “it’s for the children” and “smaller class sizes help children.” I have an idea that won’t cost a dime to implement, and would automatically reduce class sizes. We should demand that tax dollars collected for education be allowed to follow the children to any school their parents choose, even private schools. The separation-of-church-and- state crowd would protest, but there is no protesting taxing religious people to pay for education, so I don’t see the problem.

This was always about hiring more union, dues-paying employees to launder tax dollars to the Democratic Party.

Rob Leach

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