PD1 was right on target, Mags.
You defend those making $250K per year as poor over-taxed upper middle-class Americans while you taunt and ridicule $47K teachers as overpaid, spoiled and protected by their unions.
And you wonder why you have no credibility in this forum? :shrug:
Trench:
Can't compare the 2, for sure.
It is easy to see if public teachers are overpaid - and FYI, it is $47K in salary and I believe almost $50K in benefits - for a 9 month job at most. Equivalent of $133K in total comp.
So what do you think private school teachers make in comparison? That will show you the true market for teacher services - a real honest to goodness competitive marketplace, not one that is inflated by Dem's giving unions a much higher salary than what the market demands. In fact, most company do HAY studies to see what market salaries are for their positions to ensure fair pay - wanna bet that the unions DON'T do that? Nope, the union model is "take the taxpayer for as much as possible".
But the $250K families, one would imagine, are not union workers (although they could be), and as such, have their market potential and income derived by true supply and demand - which, by definition, makes them "worth" what they make.
Trench, it just seems you have a hard time understanding basic economic principles of supply/demand and capitalism. Having a 3rd party (unions) set pay levels for public employees, through secret handshake deals, over and above what the free market would pay for those services can best be labelled as stealing from the taxpayers and a criminal act.
None of us go to the store and pay 50% more for goods and services that we could get right accross the street at a different retailer - why in the world is it appropriate that we do so for public labor?
