You’ve made the claim a couple times that lower earners are just not working as hard, you know that’s not how it goes, right? Me and my wife working as teachers put in the time to go to school, put in the mandatory internships of student teaching, and then work our asses off on 80 hr weeks each to do the job and still walk away with less than $100k income. Are we just lazy?
You mean you walk away with less than $100k EACH. Your household income is likely close to $150k to $200k, with full benefits and retirement. You almost never have to worry about layoffs. Many teachers are part of unions and can practically commit murder and keep their jobs. Your household is in the top 10%, and you are exactly who they want to tax more. You have “extra income” because someone making $40k a year earns far less than you. So you have more that you can pay.
You are going to compare yourself to a Walmart employee who couldn’t bother to do their high-school homework? Who just clocks in and clocks out every day without a care in the world about their job? They absolutely work less hard than you and are far more lazy. You make more than double what they do. Do you think you should pay far more taxes? While you pay those student loans?
No, I mean total, and that’s without full benefits since one of the schools is a small business.
Many teachers are part of unions and can practically commit murder and keep their jobs.
My wife has been fired basically for being autistic more than once and while the union wanted to make a case it was eventually determined to be too unlikely to stick.
It’s cool that you think you know my whole situation and also the situation of everyone else earning less than me, but it’s just not the case that everyone or even most people making 40k are lazy. Many of them have been working hard their entire lives but didn’t have the resources to succeed despite their best efforts, and writing each of them off as
a Walmart employee who couldn’t bother to do their high-school homework? Who just clocks in and clocks out every day without a care in the world about their job?
is just pretty shitty. It’s not the case that every high earner was handed life on a silver platter, and it’s not the case that every low earner is an unskilled layabout content to wallow.
You’ve made the claim a couple times that lower earners are just not working as hard, you know that’s not how it goes, right? Me and my wife working as teachers put in the time to go to school, put in the mandatory internships of student teaching, and then work our asses off on 80 hr weeks each to do the job and still walk away with less than $100k income. Are we just lazy?
You mean you walk away with less than $100k EACH. Your household income is likely close to $150k to $200k, with full benefits and retirement. You almost never have to worry about layoffs. Many teachers are part of unions and can practically commit murder and keep their jobs. Your household is in the top 10%, and you are exactly who they want to tax more. You have “extra income” because someone making $40k a year earns far less than you. So you have more that you can pay.
You are going to compare yourself to a Walmart employee who couldn’t bother to do their high-school homework? Who just clocks in and clocks out every day without a care in the world about their job? They absolutely work less hard than you and are far more lazy. You make more than double what they do. Do you think you should pay far more taxes? While you pay those student loans?
No, I mean total, and that’s without full benefits since one of the schools is a small business.
My wife has been fired basically for being autistic more than once and while the union wanted to make a case it was eventually determined to be too unlikely to stick.
It’s cool that you think you know my whole situation and also the situation of everyone else earning less than me, but it’s just not the case that everyone or even most people making 40k are lazy. Many of them have been working hard their entire lives but didn’t have the resources to succeed despite their best efforts, and writing each of them off as
is just pretty shitty. It’s not the case that every high earner was handed life on a silver platter, and it’s not the case that every low earner is an unskilled layabout content to wallow.