Posted on 03/12/2017 4:55:48 AM PDT by C19fan
The state is hoping the first-of-its-kind proposal generates interest in the profession at a time when educators are harder to come by. California legislators are hoping a proposal to eliminate income tax for teachers will help attract young people into the profession and keep them there at a time when the state is hemorrhaging educators and lacks a pipeline.
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yep, they think people who work for the government are good and the other people need to be the ones to pay taxes.
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.
It will quickly be expanded to include all government parasites, so that they can all vote for more govt spending without ever having to worry about paying for the things they vote for. Get out while you can.
Democratic union slush fund...see we care vote for us. Let the taxpayers pick up the slack
So teachers will vote for every tax increase that liberals propose, since the teachers won’t have to pay the taxes that they support for everyone else.
Representation without taxation
This is the government picking winners and losers. They will eventually figure out a way to tax only Republicans. Taxing some groups, but not other groups for the same amount of earned income should be illegal.
For the last four years that I practiced law here in Kansas I paid no state income tax. It was great. But I’m remembering the movie Armageddon where one of their conditions was that they never pay taxes again. I love that movie.
NO!
That would be invalid. A law must apply to all, or none.
Unconstitutional and unfair.
This will only be fair if they double the income tax of non-teachers.
Won’t pass a Constitutional challenge. A clear violation of Equal Protection clause.
Teachers should NOT be unionized.
Perhaps, the legislature should add journalist and media commentators to the “exempt” list.
Funny
Had to read Post #15 twice before my eyes focused.
Stop beating around the bush and just exempt everyone from taxes except white working men and women who are not registered democraps who in the private arena. Extra taxes if you’re a Christian. You know that’s their ultimate goal - some twisted muzz slime/libtard dhimmitude for the rest of us.
I have a long time friend who retired from the Illinois Highway (tollbooth operator) with a 90k+ pension 15 years ago.
He always razzed me telling me I should have gotten a job there. I’m 69, and I pretty much cannot afford to retire even with my 2 pensions (pipe-fitters and plumbers).
He now drives a school bus for a few hundred a week, just enough to keep busy and not enough to spoil his pensions, BUT he says he will get another pension from the school bus union in 5 years (maybe 4 now) and THEN he’ll retire.
Sometimes I kick myself.
I know, let’s lett ALL government employees off the hook for taxes.
Striving for the French Revolution—California style.
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