For starters, because I pay the bill. Teacher salaries at $70,000 hit me much harder in the pocket book than does $400 million paid to one top exec at an oil company.
The oil companies salary, while excessive in my view, equals not 1/1000th of 1 cent of the price of a gallon of gasoline.
On the other hand, one of the largest budget items in my state is the cost of public education. The state tax on a gallon of gasoline amount to about 40 cents a gallon.
If you want to save, go to your school board and ask them to cut the salaries of the administrators. †hat of the average superintendent is five-10 times that of the beginning teacher. But what builds up cost is the empire-building. A superintendent has to have sveral assts, who in tern have much clerical help to do the work while the manager goes to meaning. By and large the ration of nonclassooom personel in the Public schools is about the same as the ratyionb of officers to enlisted in the military, even though every school teacher is a college grdauates and should not need all that supervision.