It’s not about salaries. It’s about pensions and health bennies that are unaffordable. Go ahead and shoot the messenger, folks, but states can’t print money and taxpayers aren’t made of it.
And when it comes to purchases made by teachers, I wish someone would take a good look at the sales tax exemptions that are taken by teachers making purchases that are supposedly work-related. In my old line of work, I saw plenty that weren’t.