Thursday, October 27, 2011

Wife showed me an interesting post basically saying that not raising taxes on millionaires leads to teachers reducing salaries. Makes a good headline, but logically flawed:

Teacher salaries are paid solely from your local property taxes, they have nothing to do with income whatsoever. Furthermore, your local payroll tax in PA (if yours has one) is collected where you work, not where you live. Taxed income only goes to teachers when the government decides to give money to municipalities, with strings attached of course, or as part of some initiative like NCLB. The federal government is why teachers have to teach kids how to pass standardized tests, not to actually learn. Which is why teachers know that government regulation in education is a bad thing.

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