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In reply to the discussion: What type of person, indeed? [View all]I get it.
I get that many of my colleagues have lost their homes to foreclosure, or sold them in short sales after the last 4.5 years of salary and contract cuts. That I've been barely holding on.
Regardless of what the base salary is, which is a local issue based on local budgets. Teachers' budgets are based on those local salaries that have been sliced to ribbons.
At the same time, we are told we must simply do the same and even better job, with less and less and less and less. Or, of course, our evaluations will suffer.
I get that just fine.
I get that states are terrified that whatever tax-generating business they have will simply move to another state if they have to pay their fair share of state taxes.
I get that.
I get that, whether at the state or the federal level, corporations are more deserving of tax breaks than the working class, middle or not.