Cops and Teachers? THEY Don't Pay Taxes!

[paft.livejournal.com]

Wisconsin State Assemblyman Robin Vos lets us all know what he thinks of those taxpaying Wisconsin citizens who work in the public sector:

The reality is they haven’t had to pay for these things, they’re upset about doing it now, and the taxpayers are the ones who definitely understand this because they get it, they’ve been doing this in the private sector for years, it’s time we had the same thing happen in the public sector…The fact that my Democratic colleagues want to go back to the taxpayer and have them pay higher taxes because someone shouldn’t pay 12% towards their healthcare….We are standing with the taxpayers all across Wisconsin. It’s amazing the outpouring of support that we’ve been getting from the people outside the Capitol Square, the people who are in the reality of the world, not the place that we’re sitting.

Howard Dean does a very good job of refuting Kudlow and Vos’ fiction that the demonstrations are all about the cuts in benefits and not about the elimination of collective bargaining. The capper to this exchange, however, comes near the end of the segment, when a sign appears just over Vos’ shoulder on the right. Not the kind of thing Kudlow could choreograph.

It beautifully highlights the idiocy of Vos' fiction that the demonstrators are, in some fundamental way, less American than other Americans. Does he really think cops and teachers don't pay taxes, or “live in the reality of the world?”

Crossposted from Thoughtcrimes
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Comments

[anadinboy.livejournal.com]

they dont pay taxes, its the same money going round and round. They are a kind of tax- paying pastiche

[paft.livejournal.com]

Really? Cops, teachers, and other public sector employees don't fill out IRS tax forms? They don't pay sales taxes? And they get paid JUST AS MUCH as private sector employees?

[anadinboy.livejournal.com]

what teachers are getting is a form of workfare, real money is taken from the real earners and given to the teachers, and they give a bit back in a parody of productivity

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

So you were home-schooled? This would explain a lot.

[badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com]

Uh...

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

Also home-schooled?

[jerseycajun.livejournal.com]

Having several family members of mine who were home schooled and are doing just fine for it, it's ignorant comments like this one that tend to get under my skin.

[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

So did the comment how public school teachers are useless workfare recipients get under your skin or just my chippy response?

I actually don't have a problem with home schooling in general but I'd like advocates of abolishing public education to point me to an example of an industrialized country that does that.

[jerseycajun.livejournal.com]

I don't like either one, and that's coming from someone who went through the public shcool system himself. I'm more likely to take something personally, however not when it touches me so much as it touches the people I love and care about. Sue me. I'm human.

So yeah. You can complain about my lack of consistency, and I'll challenge you to be equally affected when its someone who you care about personally vs. when its not.

[paft.livejournal.com]

You don't think teaching is "real work?" Seriously?