‘Sometimes they have to walk off the job.’
and by doing so thus force the lawmakers to raise taxes, which you claimed they don’t do...
‘At some point the BS needed to stop.’
BS in a lot of workplaces needs to stop; most people don’t have a public union advocating a work stoppage as a cudgel against the taxpayer...look, I get your point; the state governments abound in malfeasence, and are no doubt the primary culprit in this mess; so, lobby the legislators to privatize the system...then we’ll see how the teachers react...
No, the lawmakers are NOT forced to raise taxes. STOP LYING. the lawmakers COULD move the money from elsewhere in the budget.
Only the legislature is cudgelling the taxpayers. The COULD find the money elsewhere, but they’re lazy. Stop lying to give them excuses to be bad at their job.