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That just shifts the question - should public sector employees be able to live a comfortable life with a good car? Say, public school teachers?
by lazyasciiart 7y ago
That just shifts the question - should public sector employees be able to live a comfortable life with a good car? Say, public school teachers?
- AndrewThrowaway 7y agoNo doubt they should. I would think they do in some places like e.g. Scandinavia. Then again taxes are huge there.
- gonzo41 7y agoThe taxes aren't that big, You get a effective police force, good health care, good education, safe societies and a good economy from the network effects of those things. If you think those taxes are huge it suggests that you don't understand how you could be paying less overall for the above mentioned things if you had a consolidated population driving costs down. or that your comfortable with inequality as long as you get yours.
- erfZSgfea 7y agoWhy not? Why pick on teachers? how having a NASA software engineer make $50k/year then?
- alexhutcheson 7y agoThe sad thing is that they do: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/pdf/2020/PB.pdf https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
- lazyasciiart 7y agoBecause most people know that teachers at public schools are government employees who do not make a lot of money.