Cuts in the School System

JLM

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Good points. Also, I do believe taxes should reflect their purpose as much as possible. Seeing that the purpose of education is to develop persons to serve society, then all of society ought to pay for it. As such, income taxes earned through a trade or profession for which we must than our education could be appropriate for that.

Gambling has nothing to do with education, and so any gambling tax should go towards helping gambling addicts and such. Just like a resource tax like a gas tax could go towards building roads, etc.

Make the taxes fit their purpose at least to a reasonable degree.


Exactly
 

Machjo

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Wow, I'd really typed that badly. I meant "Income taxes earned through a trade or profession to which owe our education"
 

JLM

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Here are the average teachers salaries in the U.S.


Teacher Salaries By State | Average Salaries For Teachers | Beginning Salaries For Teachers | Teacher Raises | TeacherPortal.com


Average Salaries of Public School Teachers

Teacher Salaries by State



I personally don't think we pay them enough, after all they are teaching our children.

I'm inclined to agree with you, salaries in some states did strike me as a little on the low side, one of the things I found most surprising, was the teachers in the south seem to be faring on average a little better than the teachers in the north. I kind of thought states like Arkansas, Mississippi would be at the bottom of the pile while states like Connecticut and Massatchusetts would be near the top. I wonder what the figures are for Canada. Another figure that should come into the equation would be number of hours worked annually. I suppose that could be a little nebulous being that the good teachers do extra work at home that is unrecorded.
 

gerryh

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Interesting, teachers in CAnada don't appear to be all that highly paid either. I'm assuming the maximum salaries would be for the principal of a large school. We do seem to be ahead of states like Montana.

Something to keep in mind.... they make this salary over 10 months.