California's illustrious Public "Servants".
all animals are equal
some are more equal than others
Eliminate it for private school teachers also. And homeschool families.
marching lockstep to the agenda has its payoffs
How clever.
A new protected class. Public Skrool Teachers.
I’m a professor at the school of hard knocks. Am I tax exempt now?
Want to truly piss off a public employee. Tell them they don’t pay their taxes the taxpayer does. Also, tell them they don’t pay for their car, home and vacations - the taxpayer does. Watch them go apoplectic.
There’s actually a glimmer of sanity shown here. Some in California appear to actually see that high taxes cause people to leave.
California's illustrious Public "Servants".
It just looks like a sneaky way to get around municipal budget constraints.
I think ALL the Cali politicians from Emperor Brown on down assumed that President Cankles would bail out their failing public employee pension system. That's not going to happen now. As the collapse unfolds, it should be more interesting to watch from the sidelines than World Wrestling Entertainment!
So unsustainable pensions and health care bennies ain’t enough for them? Gives a whole new meaning to the term “pubic service”, don’t it...?
So, some who earn a certain amount in California have to pay state income tax and some don’t?
Why stop with teachers? Do it for ALL public employees. Just wipe everyone else’s nose it it—that’s the ticket!
Supposedly, a shortage of teachers is driving this. Gee, wonder why that is? Could it be that CA classroom diversity, including having to accommodate multiple languages, has made the job unacceptable to most?
They recognize them as “valuable government workers” pushing the left-wing propaganda and think they deserve a special bonus. Maybe there is use for the IRS - if it happens, consider the removal of taxes as a gift and tax it federally as such....(said tongue-in-cheek for irony impact)
His name is Ghengis Khan (it's true...with God as my Judge!)
In the old days, the aristocracy was largely “above the law”.
For some (like Clinton) that has been true today. Now, some in the aristocracy will even be “above the tax law”.
Sweet!
Sadly, I am just a serf.
I would think it would get shot down in court if ever passed. I don’t follow California politics that closely, but after reading the article their appears to be a few things going on. It appears some teachers in high stress districts say to heck with it and move on. There probably aren’t alot of openings at the better California school districts, so they move out of state or find something else to do. They can’t attract new teachers because the pay stinks and new hire pension benefits aren’t as generous. Even if giving income tax relief to teachers held up, it wouldn’t solve the problem.
California is using Illinois as a role model for fiscal sanity. In the Illinois constitution, retirement income is not subject to state income tax, and no public employee pension plan can be tinkered with. That is the starting point for the current workers’ paradise conditions in Illinois, and a rich target for California to strive for.
Then firefighters and police. Then prison guards. Then all state government workers.