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[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

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[the-rukh.livejournal.com]

those who lose votes when people become educated?

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

Nooo. Those with (R)s behind their names.

Oh, wait...

[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Why do you hate working people? When you take money from the job creators, you hurt the little people! ;)

[dwer.livejournal.com]

A bad one.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

The sort of person who understands economics, I suspect.

[enders-shadow.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing I haven't eaten lunch yet, or your comment would make me lose it.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Bookmark it for later!

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

I obviously don't. Care to explain.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

The call for a cut in salary (and we're just running with those numbers even though they lack a lot of context) is due to the lack of market pricing in educator salaries combined with the generous benefits they receive.

The opposition to higher taxes on the top earners is because of the negative impact that would have on overall employment and the historical lack of of benefit in continuing to soak them, both in terms of actual revenue benefits and overall earnings.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

The sort of person who understand your particular brand of economics, which are trickle-down and empirically falsified.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

I see you're making assumptions again.

[byrontengu.livejournal.com]

I'm an educator. As such I will not talk about this with you.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Indeed. Your conflict of interest will clearly skew your point of view on the matter. /sarcasm

I'd love to hear your point of view on it, seriously.

[oslo.livejournal.com]

You better drum a response, quick-like, or else Jeff is going to conclude you can't handle the heat.

[rowsdowerisms.livejournal.com]

You have shown that you don't understand basic supply and demand shifts so...

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

So you say.

[oslo.livejournal.com]

Well, y'see, you gotta start by acknowledging that kindergarten teachers are commodities...

[brother-dour.livejournal.com]

Cut a $50,000 salary and everything changes about that household and budget. Cut a $500,000 salary by 3% and nothing changes about that budget.

[oslo.livejournal.com]

Well, you might give up your box at the opera.

[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Nah, you live on bread and water for a year first before you let that baby go.

[tigron-x.livejournal.com]

That is mathematically inaccurate. The budget is cut by 3% for the latter. I get what you're trying to say though -- you mean lifestyle or quality of life.

[catlin.livejournal.com]

Didn't you see that politician whine about higher taxes on his 800 k a year or so back?

OMG! He didn't know how he would keep his kids in their private school, or keep their vacation house in the mountains!

[madscience.livejournal.com]

Only if the household making $50K is living way above their means. My salary is $46K, and 80% of it is disposable.

[tigron-x.livejournal.com]

I guess that depends on how you're applying the word "wrong." Because, there is no valid moral argument here. And, economically speaking, I see no relation.

[goumindong.livejournal.com]

Why isn't there a valid moral argument here? And economically you don't see a relation between income and expenditures?