You might want to argue that with how much administrators make, how much school principals make. How much those NJ toll booth operators make with no advanced degree’s BTW. Then of course the school janitors that make more. How much would those two government jobs cost over the years? Millions??
Toll booth operators don’t work 6 hours a day, 180 days per year - and their jobs are being phased out anyway. None of our janitors earn $80K, either - and there are a lot less of them. In NJ every municipality has an “education industry” cabal with a chokehold on the people they “serve”, and it has very telling consequences - it is one reason why NJ’s housing market will take years longer than other states’ to recover. It is hard to sell an average home with annual property taxes of $8K+ ($7K of which goes to public schools - whether or not you are a “consumer”). There was a reason Christie had to take on teachers; the flight of taxpayers (individual & corporate) couldn’t be ignored.